shepherd's pie

1. 1.

   pie of hash covered with mashed potatoes and browned in the oven

   Broadermeat pie

Questions about shepherd's pie

What does shepherd's pie mean?

shepherd's pie means "pie of hash covered with mashed potatoes and browned in the oven".

Is shepherd's pie a common word?

shepherd's 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.