pie

IPA: pˈaɪ

A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
(Northeastern US) A pizza.
A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.
(figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
(cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
A pie chart.
(slang) The vulva.
(informal) Something very easy; a piece of cake.
(obsolete) Magpie.
(historical) The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to ¹⁄₁₉₂ of a rupee or ¹⁄₁₂ of an anna.
(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 27.9 cm.
(zoology) Ellipsis of pie-dog: an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts.
(letterpress typography) Alternative form of pi (“metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered”) [The 16th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.]
(linguistics, anthropology, etc.) Initialism of Proto-Indo-European. [(linguistics, uncountable) The reconstructed ancestor language or protolanguage of the Indo-European family of languages, which includes most European, Iranian, and Indian languages.]
Initialism of public-interest entity.
(Singapore, in road signs) Initialism of Pan Island Expressway.

(transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
(transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
(transitive) Alternative form of pi (“to spill or mix printing type”) [(letterpress typography) To spill or mix printing type.]

(linguistics, anthropology, etc.) Initialism of Proto-Indo-European. [(linguistics, anthropology) Of or pertaining to the Proto-Indo-European language, or the people who spoke it.]

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