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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pie made of pastry and minced pork.

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Examples

  • White short point collared shirts, skinny black ties, narrow lapels with dark fitted suits teamed with a pork-pie hat mark Gordon Levitt as a hipster but a perfectly turned out hipster at that.

    Roger Stone: StoneZone's 2011 Best and Worst Dressed Roger Stone 2012

  • Those friends included the actor John C. Reilly, who wore a pork-pie hat through dinner; the actor Jack Black, who wore a napkin round his neck and Mr. Ferrell's former "Saturday Night Live" colleague Molly Shannon.

    L.A. Museum Holds 'Intimate' Gala for 600 Marshall Heyman 2011

  • He was an Italian-looking dude wearing a pork-pie hat and hound's-tooth checked pants.

    Motley Crew Katie Norton 2011

  • He was an Italian-looking dude wearing a pork-pie hat and hound's-tooth checked pants.

    Motley Crew Katie Norton 2011

  • Owen Hoffmann / Patrick McMullan Caren Lyn Tackett "That's the way that I usually like it," Mr. Stockman, in a pork-pie hat replied.

    On Broadway, 'Summer of Love' Redux Marshall Heyman 2011

  • White short point collared shirts, skinny black ties, narrow lapels with dark fitted suits teamed with a pork-pie hat mark Gordon Levitt as a hipster but a perfectly turned out hipster at that.

    Roger Stone: StoneZone's 2011 Best and Worst Dressed Roger Stone 2012

  • I actually think those pork-pie hats are cool, though.

    Men without hats: James Ellroy and Eddie Muller on "Crime Wave" Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • If this instant singalong catches on as it should this summer, no serious England-shirted follower will want to be seen without an accompanying pork-pie hat.

    England 2010 World Cup songs: the rundown 2010

  • Presumably you crossed your fingers for luck, not because you were telling a big pork-pie!!

    ketchup 2007

  • OK, i'll stop talking like a nutjob in a pork-pie hat.

    Archive 2009-03-01 hyperdave 2009

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