"mince pie" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mince pie.wav [Southern-England] Forms: mince pies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} mince pie (plural mince pies)
  1. A pie, traditionally served around Christmas time, having a filling of mincemeat (now usually in the sweet sense) and sometimes also containing alcohol or other ingredients. Categories (topical): Christmas, Pies Synonyms: Christmas pie, mincemeat pie, shred pie [obsolete], twelfth pie [obsolete], Twelfth Night pie [obsolete] Translations (mincemeat-filled pie served around Christmas): коледен пай (koleden paj) [masculine] (Bulgarian), mince pie [masculine] (French), tarte au mincemeat [feminine] (French), pióg mhionra [feminine] (Irish), ミンスパイ (minsupai) (Japanese), pye mynrey [feminine] (Manx), mins-pei [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-mince_pie-en-noun-GTH~5pIh Disambiguation of Christmas: 98 2 Disambiguation of Pies: 97 3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 98 2 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 98 2 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 98 2 Disambiguation of 'mincemeat-filled pie served around Christmas': 100 0
  2. (Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly in the plural) An eye. Tags: Cockney, in-plural, slang Categories (topical): Eye
    Sense id: en-mince_pie-en-noun-QVBYOg3x Disambiguation of Eye: 28 72

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