American pie

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English

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Etymology

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Apparently shortened from the simile American as apple pie.

Adjective

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American pie (comparative more American pie, superlative most American pie)

  1. Having the attributes associated uniquely or primarily with Americans.
    • 1976, Francine Hardaway, Creative Rhetoric, page 14:
      The prostitute's dream is the most upward mobile, middle class, American pie dream of all.
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