mince pie
See also: mincepie
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mince pie (plural mince pies)
- A pie, traditionally served around Christmas time, having a filling of mincemeat (now usually in the sweet sense) and sometimes also containing alcohol or other ingredients.
- Synonyms: Christmas pie, mincemeat pie, (obsolete) shred pie, (obsolete) twelfth pie, (obsolete) Twelfth Night pie
- (Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly in the plural) An eye.
- Gorblimey, guvnor, I couldn't believe me mince pies!
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mincemeat-filled pie served around Christmas
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