apple-pie bed

American  

noun

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

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apple-pie bed British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of apple-pie bed

First recorded in 1770–80

Example Sentences

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apple-pie bed

It was the most perfect apple-pie bed ever made.

From Once on a Time by Robinson, Charles

I can't even make you an apple-pie bed, when you sleep in a single blanket; and a booby-trap needs a door.

From The Flamp, The Ameliorator, and The Schoolboy's Apprentice by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

Three nights later, with malice aforethought and to the comfort of the King's enemies and the prejudice of the safety of the realm, she made an apple-pie bed for the Countess.

From Once on a Time by Robinson, Charles

It was no good her wishing her good wish, because she had been a bad girl the day before—making the Countess an apple-pie bed and all—disgraceful!

From Once on a Time by Robinson, Charles

Pym knew whole States which are vast and yet secret and fanciful; each is as big as a nation yet as private as a lost village, and as unexpected as an apple-pie bed.

From Manalive by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)