pile
Meanings
Adverb
1. just, exactly (colloquial)
2. dead (of stopping etc.); on the dot, sharp (of time), smack (colloquial)
Examples11
J'étais ici à 10 heures pile, mais pas vous.
I was here at 10 sharp, but you weren't.
Il est quatre heures pile.
It's now exactly four o'clock.
Il est pile cinq heures.
It is just five o'clock.
Tom apparut pile au bon moment.
Tom showed up at just the right moment.
Il est pile neuf heures à ma montre.
It is just nine by my watch.
Le Kansas est pile poil au milieu des USA.
Kansas is smack dab in the middle of the US.