pieing

Pluralpieings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of pie.

   Two activists were arrested for pieing the minister as he left the conference hall.

   Students lined up at the fair for a chance at pieing the principal.

   Note

   The spelling keeps the e of pie, where die and tie switch to y (dying, tying). The form carries several different verbs, so context does the sorting: activists pieing a minister throw a pie, a team pieing a corner edges around it with care, a printer pieing type spills it, and in UK slang someone pieing you is ignoring you.

2. 2
   nouncountable

   An act of throwing a pie at someone, often at a politician or other powerful or influential figure as a protest.

   The minister laughed off the pieing and finished his speech with cream on his collar.

   Security at the shareholders' meeting was tightened after last year's pieing of the chief executive.

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