Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pie made of pastry and minced pork.
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Examples
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White short point collared shirts, skinny black ties, narrow lapels with dark fitted suits teamed with a pork-pie hat mark Gordon Levitt as a hipster but a perfectly turned out hipster at that.
Roger Stone: StoneZone's 2011 Best and Worst Dressed Roger Stone 2012
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Those friends included the actor John C. Reilly, who wore a pork-pie hat through dinner; the actor Jack Black, who wore a napkin round his neck and Mr. Ferrell's former "Saturday Night Live" colleague Molly Shannon.
L.A. Museum Holds 'Intimate' Gala for 600 Marshall Heyman 2011
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He was an Italian-looking dude wearing a pork-pie hat and hound's-tooth checked pants.
Motley Crew Katie Norton 2011
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He was an Italian-looking dude wearing a pork-pie hat and hound's-tooth checked pants.
Motley Crew Katie Norton 2011
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Owen Hoffmann / Patrick McMullan Caren Lyn Tackett "That's the way that I usually like it," Mr. Stockman, in a pork-pie hat replied.
On Broadway, 'Summer of Love' Redux Marshall Heyman 2011
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White short point collared shirts, skinny black ties, narrow lapels with dark fitted suits teamed with a pork-pie hat mark Gordon Levitt as a hipster but a perfectly turned out hipster at that.
Roger Stone: StoneZone's 2011 Best and Worst Dressed Roger Stone 2012
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I actually think those pork-pie hats are cool, though.
Men without hats: James Ellroy and Eddie Muller on "Crime Wave" Peter Rozovsky 2010
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If this instant singalong catches on as it should this summer, no serious England-shirted follower will want to be seen without an accompanying pork-pie hat.
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Presumably you crossed your fingers for luck, not because you were telling a big pork-pie!!
ketchup 2007
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OK, i'll stop talking like a nutjob in a pork-pie hat.
Archive 2009-03-01 hyperdave 2009
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