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Chicago-style pizza

Noun

Meaning

Chicago-style pizza (countable and uncountable, plural Chicago-style pizzas)

A casserole-like deep-dish pizza, the crust of which has a characteristically high edge, on which the toppings are often layered "upside down" (first cheese and meat or vegetables, then tomato sauce).

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Alternative names

Chicago style pizza

Examples

If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza. Nick Offerman

Unlike its thin and flat predecessors, Chicago-style pizza is characteristically hefty. Source: Internet

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