a flat, open-faced baked pie of Italian origin, consisting of a thin layer of bread dough topped with spiced tomato sauce and cheese, often garnished with anchovies, sausage slices, mushrooms, etc.
“There were moments when I was just really tempted to have a slice of pizza or a cheeseburger,” he says.
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“I would love to eat a pizza like that,” she says, testing Robin.
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Germans have a special bond with their wurst; like pizza and Italians; sushi and the Japanese; or beer and, well, the Germans.
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Rizzo himself as usual, was sitting at a table by himself, wolfing his pizza in solitary grandeur.
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Pizza shops and hamburger joints figure visibly on the Internet (still in its infancy).
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It was all the rage to be Italian and boast of one's prowess in demolishing mounds of pizza.
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Unemployed pizza cooks and pizza rub girls were soon at the end of the dough line.
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No matter how big or hungry your family, you can always appease them with pizza.
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Extortionists began to muscle in asking for their share of the pizza pie.
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British Dictionary definitions for pizza
pizza
/ (ˈpiːtsə) /
noun
a dish of Italian origin consisting of a baked disc of dough covered with cheese and tomatoes, usually with the addition of mushrooms, anchovies, sausage, or ham
Word Origin for pizza
C20: from Italian, perhaps from Vulgar Latin picea (unattested), from Latin piceus relating to pitch ²; perhaps related to Modern Greek pitta cake