"pie off" meaning in All languages combined

See pie off on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: pies off [present, singular, third-person], pieing off [participle, present], pied off [participle, past], pied off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|<,pieing,>}} pie off (third-person singular simple present pies off, present participle pieing off, simple past and past participle pied off)
  1. To make into a pie, or otherwise get rid of. Related terms: air, blank, dump, ghost
    Sense id: en-pie_off-en-verb-vKaV4tgJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "off", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 80 20 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "off": 85 15 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 92 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 93 7
  2. (by extension) To ignore or reject. Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-pie_off-en-verb-HuulPabi

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Ali had a shaved head at Debs' wedding. Kel wasn't too impressed sith his ostentatious display of dancing at the reception, which knocked over two chairs and three vodka Red Bulls. 'Pie him off,\" advises her sister. 'I will,' she promises.",
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          "text": "Anyway, as the evening got more and more raucous and he group got drunker, one of the women sidled up to me and pressed herself up against me and tried to snog me. That night the boss was being a propa jobsworth, so I had to give he woman a Scotty smile and politely pie her off.",
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          "ref": "2019 October 17, w:Peter Crouch, I, Robot: How to Be a Footballer 2:",
          "text": "I stuck a bleary eye to the peephole in the door. Mickey. I turned back. 'Lads it's fucking w:Mickey Rourke.' The chorus was instant. 'Ah, pie him off.' 'He can do one!' 'Give it a rest, Mickey, won't you?'",
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