American pie

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American pie

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Apparently shortened from the simile American as apple pie.

adjective more American pie · most American pie

Having the attributes associated uniquely or primarily with Americans. The prostitute's dream is the most upward mobile, middle class, American pie dream of all.

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@misc{american_pie_2026,
  title = {American pie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/american%20pie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}