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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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