cus|tard-pie

cus|tard-pie
cus|tard-pie «KUHS tuhrd PY», adjective.
having to do with or resembling slapstick comedy, such as that of the early silent motion pictures in which one comic routine was to throw a pie filled with custard at the face of another actor.

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