deep-dish pizza
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From deep-dish + pizza. From being made in a high-walled pan.
Noun
deep-dish pizza (countable and uncountable, plural deep-dish pizzas)
- Synonym of Chicago-style pizza (“a pizza casserole on a bread base”).
Coordinate terms
- thick-crust pizza (a regular crust pizza, not as thick as deep-dish but thicker than thin-crust)
- thin-crust pizza (a pizza with a thin and crispy bread base)