to pie
- verb
- /paɪ/
- Informal
- We made a whipped cream pie with cereal and pied each other in the face.
So cries would go around and pie people and you don't remember.
- So cries would go around and pie people and you don't remember.
- If anyone else pied Ethan, it would have been a lot more money.
- I was still, you know, just pieing, doing whatever.
Examples
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So, we catch up to Donnie in the alley and we pie him.
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Each pie costs $2, and you can pie your professor of choice.
Blog text (23) -
Yeah, I got pied a lot of times.
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Grace, get pied in the face.
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- Bob... prepare to be pied.
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I mean, I was gonna pie someone's butt, and after he tossed your stuff the other day, he totally deserved it.
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I say, due to the fact that that jerk just got his butt pied in front of the whole class, I think we should celebrate and get ourselves into the holiday spirit.
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So let's say Laurel decides to pie Hardy and Brady decides to pie Laurel.
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At the school fundraiser, the students decided to pie their teachers to raise money for charity.
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During the festival, it was a tradition to pie volunteers as part of the fun activities.
Synonyms
To throw oval objects laid by birds at people or places to show anger
Idioms
- Informal
Different parts of life have their own good things to enjoy one at a time
Compounds
A pastry filled with pieces of beef and kidneys, often cooked in gravy
- US
A sweet pie that uses the cooked, mashed part of a winter vegetable like pumpkin
How Forceful
- Informal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pie as a verb comes from the noun pie, because in comedy people would throw a cream pie at someone's face as a joke. So to pie someone is 'to throw a pie at them' as a funny prank or form of protest.