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• cutie-pie

Noun

cutie pie ‎(plural cutie pies)

1. (idiomatic) A cute person.

   Her daughter is such a cutie pie!

   • 1916 November 28, Dopey Dan, “Twixt Love and Safety”, in The Washington Herald, page 14:

     Not a chance, Cutie-Pie! I'm still in th' hands o' my Oculist!

2. A small hand-held radiation meter.
   • 2014, Mary Alice Statkiewicz Sherer, ‎Paula J. Visconti, ‎E. Russell Ritenour, Workbook for Radiation Protection in Medical Radiography (page 23)

     Most hospitals stock cutie pies to monitor radiation contamination levels during an emergency.

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