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pie off en · VERB
Meanings
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To make into a pie, or otherwise get rid of.
[…]he intends to take you in partner with him; so that you may steal sheep upon the downs here, and he'll pie them off in London.
1795, Merryfield, Merryfield's jests; or, Wit's companion., page 57:Ali had a shaved head at Debs' wedding. Kel wasn't too impressed sith his ostentatious display of dancing at the reception, which knocked over two chairs and three vodka Red Bulls. 'Pie him off," advises her sister. 'I will,' she promises.
2022 February 24, w:Tina Baker, Nasty Little Cuts:
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(broadly) To ignore or reject.
Anyway, as the evening got more and more raucous and he group got drunker, one of the women sidled up to me and pressed herself up against me and tried to snog me. That night the boss was being a propa jobsworth, so I had to give he woman a Scotty smile and politely pie her off.
2016 October 20, w:Scotty T, A Shore Thing:I stuck a bleary eye to the peephole in the door. Mickey. I turned back. 'Lads it's fucking w:Mickey Rourke.' The chorus was instant. 'Ah, pie him off.' 'He can do one!' 'Give it a rest, Mickey, won't you?'
2019 October 17, w:Peter Crouch, I, Robot: How to Be a Footballer 2:
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dump · air · ghost · blank