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cream pie en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /(ˈ)kɹiːm ˈpaɪ/

Meanings

  1. (US, countable, uncountable) A pie, usually filled with fruit, topped with whipped cream.
    • The young men and women slinging plate lunches and mammoth slices of cream pie on the tables recall the energetic waitresses from the good old days. 1993, Michael Wallis, Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation: Writings from America’s Heartland, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 44:
  2. (countable, uncountable) A pie filled entirely with cream, used as a prop in slapstick films and television.
  3. (countable, uncountable) A cookie (dessert) consisting of two soft cookies (especially oatmeal cookies) with a layer of creamy or marshmallowy filling in the middle.
    • ASSEMBLE THE CREAM PIES: Place about 1 to 2 tablespoons of filling on the underside of one cookie and top with an additional cookie. 2013 October 8, Monica Holland, Lick the Bowl Good: Classic Home-Style Desserts with a Twist, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
    • The best thing about cream pie cookies? You have permission to eat two cookies instead of one, since it takes two to make a proper sandwich. But now there's a new problem: limiting yourself to just one cream pie. Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cream Pies[…] To make the cookies, […] To make the filling, […] To assemble the cream pies, spread about 1 tablespoon of buttercream filling on the flat (bottom) side of 1 cookie. Top with another cookie. 2013 July 10, Bianca Phillips, Cookin' Crunk: Eating Vegan in The Dirty South, Book Publishing Company, →ISBN:
  4. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of creampie (pornographic term).
    alt of creampie

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cream pies Number=Plur lexicographic
creampie alternative lexicographic