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apple-pie bed

American  

noun

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

apple-pie bed British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of apple-pie bed

First recorded in 1770–80

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