pie

1. (n) A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.) 2. (n) Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling. 3. (n) (Northeastern US) A pizza. 4. (n) 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. 5. (n) (figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts. 6. (n) (cricket) An especially badly bowled ball. 7. (n) A pie chart. 8. (n) (informal) Something very easy; a piece of cake. 9. (n) (slang) The vulva. 10. (n) (slang) A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine. 11. (v) (transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing). 12. (v) (transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner. 13. (v) (transitive, UK, slang, often followed by off) To ignore (someone). 14. (n) (obsolete) Magpie. 15. (n) (historical) A former low-denomination coin of northern India. 16. (n) (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 27.9 cm. 17. (v) (transitive) Alternative form of pi (“to spill or mix printing type”). [(letterpress typography) To spill or mix printing type.] 18. (n) (letterpress typography) Alternative form of pi (“metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered”). [The sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.] 19. (n) (zoology) Ellipsis of pie-dog (“an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts”). 20. (n) Initialism of public-interest entity. 21. (n) (Singapore, in road signs) Initialism of Pan Island Expressway. 22. (n) (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.] 23. (adj) (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.] 24. (n) (historical) Initialism of Paedophile Information Exchange.