tamale pie

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   a meat mixture covered with cornbread topping that resembles a Mexican dish

   Broaderdish

Questions about tamale pie

What does tamale pie mean?

tamale pie means "a meat mixture covered with cornbread topping that resembles a Mexican dish".

Is tamale pie a common word?

tamale 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.