(as) American as apple pie
Definition of (as) American as apple pie
: very or typically American Baseball is as American as apple pie.
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appleplay
: the fleshy, usually rounded red, yellow, or green edible pome fruit of a usually cultivated tree (genus Malus) of the rose family
: an apple tree — compare crab apple
: a fruit (such as a star apple) or other vegetative growth (such as an oak apple) suggestive of an apple
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pieplay
: magpie
: a meat dish baked with biscuit or pastry crust — compare potpie
: a dessert consisting of a filling (as of fruit or custard) in a pastry shell or topped with pastry or both
: affair, business
: less common spelling ofpi
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