Sentence examples for custard pie from inspiring English sources

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custard pie

noun

A prop used in slapstick consisting of an open pie filled with custard or cream (or, more often nowadays, simply a paper plate covered with shaving foam or a similar substance) that is pushed into another person's face

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Our favorite was the coconut custard pie with brûléed crust.

No wonder he got a custard pie in the face.

I might manage a custard pie on October 10, though.

A cold Bud and homemade peach custard pie are extra.

That's right – the custard pie in the face.

He is Fleet Street's most gleeful troublemaker, a master of the well-aimed custard pie.

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Some custard-pie comedy music, please, Kate".

From the left, though, Stiller's face seems custard-pie-ready.

Though the fight stuff is funny (and also reminiscent of some of Chaplin's), the movie's claim to great fame is that it is the custard-pie comedy to end all custard-pie comedies.

So you've got painful home truths coming out while people dressed up like Benny Hill are having custard-pie fights.

Artistic differences tear them apart – spectacularly when Mabel's on-set explosion sets off the custard-pie fight.

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