MEAT PIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meat pie mean? 

• MEAT PIE (noun)
  The noun MEAT PIE has 1 sense:

1. pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough

  Familiarity information: MEAT PIE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEAT PIE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("meat pie" is a kind of...):

pie (dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meat pie"):

pasty (small meat pie or turnover)

tourtiere (a meat pie that is usually eaten at Christmas in Quebec)

shepherd's pie (pie of hash covered with mashed potatoes and browned in the oven)

steak and kidney pie (steak with sauteed kidneys and onions cooked in wine and stock then covered with pastry and baked)

kidney pie (like steak and kidney pie but without steak)

 Context examples 

I paid sixpence more for my dinner, which was a meat pie and a turn at a neighbouring pump; and passed the hour which was allowed for that meal, in walking about the streets.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The researchers pre-exposed groups of rats to either a low or high dose of the probiotic medicine for two weeks before their diet was changed from healthy chow to cafeteria-style food (including cookies, cakes and meat pies).

(Probiotics May Not Always Be A Silver Bullet for Better Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)