| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ap·ple-pie |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p  l-p  |
| ADJECTIVE: | Informal 1. Perfect; exemplary: put the room in apple-pie order. 2. often apple pie Of, relating to, or marked by values regarded as distinctively American: “Family, neighborhood, community are apple pie virtues, unassailable and unavoidable in political rhetoric” (Ronald Brownstein).
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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