potpie
Americannoun
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a deep-dish pie containing meat, chicken, or the like, often combined with vegetables and topped with a pastry crust.
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a stew, as of chicken or veal, with dumplings, biscuits, or the like.
noun
Etymology
Origin of potpie
Example Sentences
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We fold warm, peeled potatoes through mayonnaise, sauce our noodles in the pan and unravel over a potpie with a squidgy layer of puff pastry soaked with what’s below.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2024
“It’s like saying that new restaurant is better than this chicken potpie that fell on the sidewalk. It is, but you’re not really giving me much useful information there.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2023
Founded five decades ago, the restaurant was something of a Lenox institution, with burgers, chicken wings, nachos and chicken potpie on the menu.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2022
This pie crust is a very enhanced crust to make sure it doesn’t deteriorate under the weight of the potpie filling.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2022
He gave in and scooped up the last bite of potpie.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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