apple-pie bed


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

Origin of apple-pie bed

1
First recorded in 1770–80
  • Also called pie bed.

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How to use apple-pie bed in a sentence

  • “Come along quickly, or you will have an apple-pie bed made,” he said, in a low voice.

    Digby Heathcote | W.H.G. Kingston
  • He was a Parisian, a former street arab, and I suspected him of having prepared an apple-pie bed in order to have a laugh at me.

    Trooper 3809 | Lionel Decle
  • Fortunately, however, I have a very good answer to this apple-pie bed charge.

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

  • apple-pie bed, a trick played at schools on new comers, or on any boy disliked by the rest.

    The Slang Dictionary | John Camden Hotten

British Dictionary definitions for apple-pie bed

apple-pie bed

noun
  1. British a way of making a bed so as to prevent the person from entering it

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