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meat pie en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (countable, qualifier:non-idiomatic usage, uncountable) A pie containing meat.
   • Meat pies, which used to be a traditional Acadian Christmastime treat, are one of Louisiana′s least-touted specialties. 2009, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, 500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late: And the Very Best Places to Eat Them, page 179:
   • 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. 1998, W. F. Harrigan, Laboratory Methods in Food Microbiology, page 220:
   • 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. 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 46:
   • My sister-in-law from Corsica makes the best quiche and the best meat pie in the world.
   • 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. 1995, Flora Speer, For Love and Honor, Dorchester Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:
   • 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. 1960, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Seedtime on the Cumberland, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, page 418:
2. (Australia, New-Zealand, countable, uncountable) A hand-sized pot pie containing largely minced meat and gravy and typically consumed as a takeaway food snack.
   • 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. 2005, Margaret Fulton, Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z, Revised edition, page 444:
   • (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. 1979, John L. Goldring, L. W. Maher, Consumer Protection Law in Australia, page 119:
   • 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. 2006 May, Australian Consumers′ Association, Choice, page 9:

Forms

Deriveds

Australian as a meat pie · Natchitoches meat pie

Relateds

mince pie · hand pie · mincemeat · pasty · party pie · pie floater · pork pie · meatcake · pastie · potpie · sausage roll

Translations (17)

fi lihapiirakka (pie containing meat) · io torto (pie containing meat) · ga pióg fheola (pie containing meat) · ru мясно́й пиро́г (pie containing meat) · cmn 肉餅 /肉饼 (pie containing meat) · cmn 肉餡餅 /肉馅饼 (pie containing meat) · it pasticcio di carne (pie containing meat) · ru пиро́г с мя́сом (pie containing meat) · cjs кӱрмек (pie containing meat) · ko 고기 파이 (pie containing meat) · uk м'ясни́й пирі́г (pie containing meat) · fi lihapiiras (pie containing meat) · pl ciasto z nadzieniem mięsnym (pie containing meat) · es pastel de carne (pie containing meat) · fr tourte (pie containing meat) · mt torta tal-laħam (pie containing meat) · ja ミートパイ (pie containing meat)