Meaning of flapper pie | Babel Free

Definitions

A vanilla custard pie topped with meringue (or sometimes whipped cream in South Saskatchewan).

countable, uncountable

Examples

“She moved the two flapper pies and a loaf of fresh bread off the table, onto the kitchen cabinet.”

“Maybe we ought to compare notes on a long day, have a coffee, maybe try some flapper pie.”

“Sometimes he’d be paid with a case of beer, other times with a handshake or something the wife had made, a flapper pie or a sealer of canned chicken, the meat encased in jelly.”

“Come up sometime and I’ll treat you to poutine and some flapper pie.”

“Now, put on your apron, tie back your hair, and grab your mixing bowls: it’s time for some butter and brown sugar—let’s make us some flapper pie!”

“People would come to the food booth at the Livelong Fair day and specifically ask for Mrs. Binns’s apple or flapper pies.”

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