apple pie

• apple-pie

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /ˌæp.əlˈpaɪ/, [ˌæp.ɫ̩ˈpaɪ]

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌæp.əlˈpɑɪ/, [ˌæp.ɫ̩ˈpɑɪ]
• Rhymes: -aɪ

apple pie (countable and uncountable, plural apple pies)

1. A pie or tart made with a filling of cooked apples.
2. (figuratively) Anything positive that is quintessentially American.
   • 1981 December 12, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Gay Theatre Verité”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 10:

     […] what we've been waiting for so long: a positive but never Pollyanish play about gays leading lives which are neither some bizarre caricature taken from heterosexual fantasy nor even more nuclear and apple-pie normal than any straight lives anyone has ever heard of.

   • 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     Hanks has often been called our generation's answer to James Stewart, and the similarities are certainly there. With his shared "gee shucks" sweetness and apple pie Americanness, Stewart also appeared in many war films and family dramas.

   • 2021 April 8, Margaret Atwood, “‘It has never been more pertinent’ – Margaret Atwood on the chilling genius of Laurie Anderson’s Big Science”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     She was a refugee, not to America but from within America: a Mom and apple pie America, an America of the past that was being rapidly transformed by material inventions, and by the freeways, malls, and drive-in banks cited in the song Big Science as landmarks on the road to town.

3. (dialectal, UK) Any of various willowherbs.

apple pie (third-person singular simple present apple pies, present participle apple pieing, simple past and past participle apple pied)

1. (transitive) Of a bed, to make an apple-pie bed.

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