apple pienoun [ C or U ]
/ˌæp.əl ˈpaɪ//ˌæp.əl ˈpaɪ/a sweet food made from apples cooked under or inside pastry:
She roasted a leg of lamb and baked an apple pie.
a piece of apple pie
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Pastry & pies
- baked goods
- banoffee pie
- cheesecake
- choux pastry
- Cornish pasty
- filo pastry
- flan
- mince pie
- mincemeat
- pasty
- pork pie
- pot pie
- profiterole
- puff
- puff pastry
- quiche
- tart
- turnover
- vol-au-vent
- éclair
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Idiom(s)
as American as apple pie
motherhood and apple pie
apple pieadjective
also apple-pie /ˌæp.əl ˈpaɪ//ˌæp.əl ˈpaɪ/representing traditional and positive ideas of life in the US:
The film seems to depict an idealized apple-pie notion of American life.
He explores the dysfunctional reality of apple-pie suburbia.
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Custom, tradition & conformity
- as American as apple pie idiom 1
- backward-looking
- backwards
- be (like) sheep idiom
- blend into the scenery idiom
- classical
- cue
- folk
- folk memory
- folklore
- follow the crowd idiom
- go/swim against the tide idiom
- nonconformist
- norm
- orthodoxy
- patrimony
- reactionary
- scenery
- sheep
- zeitgeist
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Idiom(s)
be in apple-pie order