American pie

English

Etymology

Apparently shortened from the simile American as apple pie.

Adjective

American pie (comparative more American pie, superlative most American pie)

  1. Having the attributes associated uniquely or primarily with Americans.
    • 1976, Francine Hardaway, Creative Rhetoric, page 14:
      The prostitute's dream is the most upward mobile, middle class, American pie dream of all.
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