Pieman

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A man who sells pies.
  2. 2
    The man who called heads or tails in street gambling games of coin tossing. UK, obsolete, slang

Etymology

* From Middle English pyman (attested as a surname), equivalent to pie + -man. * (caller in gambling games): Such games were once often run by sellers of pies as a sideline.

Related phrases

toss the pieman

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