custard pie

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   a prop consisting of an open pie filled with real or artificial custard; thrown in slapstick comedies

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Questions about custard pie

What does custard pie mean?

custard pie means "a prop consisting of an open pie filled with real or artificial custard; thrown in slapstick comedies".

Is custard pie a common word?

custard pie is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.