apple-pie bed

noun

1. a bed that has been short-sheeted as a joke.

apple-pie bed

noun

1. a way of making a bed so as to prevent the person from entering it

Word History and Origins

Origin of apple-pie bed¹

First recorded in 1770–80

Example Sentences

“Come along quickly, or you will have an apple-pie bed made,” he said, in a low voice.

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He was a Parisian, a former street arab, and I suspected him of having prepared an apple-pie bed in order to have a laugh at me.

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Fortunately, however, I have a very good answer to this apple-pie bed charge.

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Listen again to one Montagu, a sixth-form boy who has caught a gang of dormitory roysterers preparing an apple-pie bed for him.

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Apple-pie Bed, a trick played at schools on new comers, or on any boy disliked by the rest.

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