Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Perfect; exemplary.
 - adjective Of, relating to, or marked by values regarded as distinctively American.
 
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- noun   Alternative spelling of 
apple pie . 
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Examples
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Tracey Emin's bed is in apple-pie order by comparison.
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His statement to get rid of, in effect, dumb regulations is seen as apple-pie rhetoric.
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: Pharaoh Down, Dutch @ 100, Birth, Space HuffPost Radio 2011
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The America I Used To Know ™ directed government spending toward the plaid-shirt apple-pie eating flag-waving nuclear families of the land.
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As Jacobson registers mild alarm, mostly over the apple-pie cake, a smile slowly breaks across Sonya's face.
Dinner with Michael Jacobson, 'Chief of the Food Police' 2011
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His statement to get rid of, in effect, dumb regulations is seen as apple-pie rhetoric.
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: Pharaoh Down, Dutch @ 100, Birth, Space HuffPost Radio 2011
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Britney Spears's conundrum, at the age of 29, is how to translate the effortless apple-pie sex appeal she once possessed into a marketable product as an adult performer.
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• What price Nick Clegg's hopes that coalition politics will nurture motherhood and apple-pie consensus?
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I choose to ignore that fact and INSIST that apple-pie is an AMERICAN dish because I have a narrative to save!
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His statement to get rid of, in effect, dumb regulations is seen as apple-pie rhetoric.
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: Pharaoh Down, Dutch @ 100, Birth, Space HuffPost Radio 2011
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Fudges (and even reverses) on the EU, on tax, economic policy, even on general aims, apart from motherhood and apple-pie.
 
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