meat pie

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word meat pie. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word meat pie, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say meat pie in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word meat pie you have here. The definition of the word meat pie will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofmeat pie, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: meat-pie and meatpie

English

Wikipedia Wikipedia
Chicken and rabbit meat pie (sense 1)
A typical meat pie (sense 2) with ketchup

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

meat pie (countable and uncountable, plural meat pies)

  1. (non-idiomatic usage, cooking) A pie containing meat.
    My sister-in-law from Corsica makes the best quiche and the best meat pie in the world.
    • 1960, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Seedtime on the Cumberland, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, page 418:
      If flour ran short we can be certain it was saved for gravies, dumplings, cakes and gingerbread, and pie crust, and most particularly for meat pie.
    • 1995, Flora Speer, For Love and Honor, Dorchester Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:
      She averted her eyes, looking toward Crispin, who ate meat pie and a large slice of roasted ox with healthy relish and without seeming to notice her discomfort.
    • 1998, W. F. Harrigan, Laboratory Methods in Food Microbiology, page 220:
      In the case of meat pies that have a jelly or stock added after cooking, the stock and meat should be sampled separately as well as together in a combined sample.
    • 2009, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, 500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late: And the Very Best Places to Eat Them, page 179:
      Meat pies, which used to be a traditional Acadian Christmastime treat, are one of Louisiana′s least-touted specialties.
    • 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 46:
      It was to Liubotyn station that I and my best mate Sasha once ventured on our lives' first (meaning without the adults) train ride. […] We got off at Liubotyn, then sleepy and unmistakeably rural, bought a couple of wrinkled meat pies at a station kiosk, and got back on the train.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand) A hand-sized pot pie containing largely minced meat and gravy and typically consumed as a takeaway food snack.
    • 1979, John L. Goldring, L. W. Maher, Consumer Protection Law in Australia, page 119:
      (a) Meat pie is cooked meat with or without cereal, condiments seasoning and water, enclosed in a case of pastry.
      (b) Meat pie shall contain not less than twenty-five parts per centum of meat when determined by the prescribed method.
    • 2005, Margaret Fulton, Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z, Revised edition, page 444:
      Meat pies are an Australian favourite and are sold in cake and sandwich shops from one end of the land to the other. The classic version is simple – an individual, 2-crust pie full of chopped beef in a rich gravy.
    • 2006 May, Australian Consumers′ Association, Choice, page 9:
      If you think the major ingredient in most meat pies is meat you’re in for a disappointment. But some brands are meatier than others.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia