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

As they had expected, it was not long before two stealthy figures came tiptoeing in, and were taken red-handed in the very act of constructing an apple-pie bed.

From The Madcap of the School by Salmon, Balliol

Daintree chuckled again, and I gathered from the expression of his face that the nurse had endured something worse than an apple-pie bed.

From Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 by Birmingham, George A.

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

From The Lighter Side of School Life by Hay, Ian

"Was it the apple-pie bed, or the lost keys, or the water in the boot, or the clothes-line across the road?"

From The Terrible Twins by Jepson, Edgar

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

From Once on a Time by Robinson, Charles