pies

/paɪz/ · verb

Meaning

To spill or mix printing type.
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.
The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
(letterpress) A disorderly mess of spilt type.
An especially badly bowled ball.
To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
(of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.
Magpie.
The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a rupee or 1/12 of an anna.

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