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apple-pie bed

noun

  1. a bed that has been short-sheeted as a joke.


apple-pie bed

noun

  1. a way of making a bed so as to prevent the person from entering it
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of apple-pie bed1

First recorded in 1770–80
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My first impulse was one of joy at seeing him again, but then I remembered the blanket he had made me think was stolen, and the apple-pie bed he had made for the new occupants of his cabin the day he left on his honeymoon.

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My taste in them is so elementary that an apple-pie bed makes me laugh tears, and when I go to the play I love to see chairs pulled away just as people are going to sit down.

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Listen again to one Montagu, a sixth-form boy who has caught a gang of dormitory roysterers preparing an apple-pie bed for him.

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"I have it on absolute authority that Ermengarde once made another girl an apple-pie bed!" tittered Susie.

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"A booby trap," said H. O., "the first thing when they get up, and an apple-pie bed at night."

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