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apple-pie Definition

apple-pie (ap′əl pī′)

adjective

Informal of or characteristic of certain values, as wholesomeness or decency, esp. when regarded as being particularly American

apple-pie Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • order: Next to the lounge bar is the restaurant, The Rillington Grill, also kept in apple-pie order.
  • bed: I can still make a nifty apple-pie bed a very useful skill I m sure you'll agree.
  • stuff: All good motherhood and apple-pie stuff that you'd expect from a prominent Conservative.
apple-pie Quotes

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she- bear coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the Grand Panjandrumhimself, withthelittleround buttonat top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as- catch-can till the gunpowder ran out of theheels of their boots.

—Foote, Samuel