: baked in a deep dish
a deep-dish pizza
especially : baked in a deep dish with usually a fruit filling and no bottom crust

Examples of deep-dish in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The sauce was, according to deep-dish traditions, evenly distributed across the surface, and a row of overlapping pepperoni slices formed a cool stripe down the middle of the pie, each circle blackened on the part of the sausage exposed to the high heat of the oven. Zoe Glasser, Washington Post, 27 June 2024 There are more than 10 pizza selections offered from deep-dish style to bar style. Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2024 An old-fashioned cobbler is a deep-dish baked fruit dessert that starts with the batter on the bottom. Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2024 With his job on the line, Peter is tasked with delivering eight extra-large deep-dish pizzas across 42 blocks within a tight time frame, and of course, there are people to be saved along the way. Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for deep-dish 

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Word History

First Known Use

1883, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of deep-dish was in 1883

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“Deep-dish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deep-dish. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.

Kids Definition

deep-dish

adjective
-ˌdish
: baked in a deep dish
a deep-dish pizza
especially : baked in a deep dish with usually a fruit filling and no bottom crust
a deep-dish apple pie
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