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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
apple-pie
 
SYLLABICATION:ap·ple-pie
PRONUNCIATION:pl-p
ADJECTIVE: Informal 1. Perfect; exemplary: put the room in apple-pie order. 2. often apple pie Of, relating to, or marked by values regarded as distinctively American: “Family, neighborhood, community are apple pie virtues, unassailable and unavoidable in political rhetoric” (Ronald Brownstein).
 
 
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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