variants
or pie hole
plural pieholes or pie holes
US slang
: mouth sense 1a
According to a study published in the October 1998 Journal of the American Dietetic Association, taste is the primary factor that motivates people's choices of what to stick in their pieholes.—
Steve Mirsky
Steve MirskyI want to use precise clinical terminology to address that serious issue: Shut your piehole.—Mark Rahner
Mark RahnerSelf-improvement lesson: If you shut your pie hole, you'll find some of the answers you're looking for. At the very least, you won't be so annoying.—Rachel Sauer
Rachel SauerExamples of piehole in a Sentence
“Shut your piehole or I'll shut it for you,” the bully threatened
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So keep your piehole shut and go out and play football and earn your keep and earn your respect.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 May 2025
Busch won the pole for the race and was the most combative driver in reaction to Keselowski’s remarks about Toyotas, telling Keselowski through Twitter to shut his piehole (or an abbreviation to that effect).
—Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2017
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Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 May 2025
Busch won the pole for the race and was the most combative driver in reaction to Keselowski’s remarks about Toyotas, telling Keselowski through Twitter to shut his piehole (or an abbreviation to that effect).
—Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2017
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“Piehole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piehole. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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