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pizza puff en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From pizza + puff, trademarked in some regions, including by the Illinois Tamale Company in the United States.

Meanings

  1. A dough pouch filled with the ingredients of a pizza, such as cheese, pizza sauce, sausage, and pepperoni, and usually deep-fried.
    • Today I was eating a pizza puff with crinkle-fries and a vanilla shake, so diarrhea was pretty much a definite for me. 2004, Joe Meno, Hairstyles of the Damned, page 68:
    • Rick tells them about various diners (he is an expert on local grubby diners), and which ones make you need a bathroom the soonest, which ones you should only order a pizza puff from […] 2016, Adam Selzer, Just Kill Me, page 121:
    • That he'd never had a pizza puff did not deter him. His approach at lunch, as it was elsewhere, was straight ahead. 2006, Andy Nash, Through the Lens of Social Justice:

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