Apple-pie bed
a bed that has been short-sheeted as a joke.
Historical Examples
Fortunately, however, I have a very good answer to this apple-pie bed charge.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, October 6, 1920 Various
apple-pie bed, a trick played at schools on new comers, or on any boy disliked by the rest.
The Slang Dictionary John Camden Hotten
But you see, Anne, this perhaps has irritated them more than an apple-pie bed.
I’ll Leave It To You Noel Coward
“Come along quickly, or you will have an apple-pie bed made,” he said, in a low voice.
Digby Heathcote W.H.G. Kingston
Listen again to one Montagu, a sixth-form boy who has caught a gang of dormitory roysterers preparing an apple-pie bed for him.
The Lighter Side of School Life Ian Hay
He was a Parisian, a former street arab, and I suspected him of having prepared an apple-pie bed in order to have a laugh at me.
Trooper 3809 Lionel Decle
I have it on absolute authority that Ermengarde once made another girl an apple-pie bed!
The Jolliest Term on Record Angela Brazil
noun
(Brit) a way of making a bed so as to prevent the person from entering it
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