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sandwich

UK /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/US /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/

noun 4
verb 5
adjective 1
forms 5
phrases 5

noun4

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a small meal made by putting food between two pieces of bread, or inside one
- The most famous place in Copenhagen, Ida Davidsen, has a menu of 190 different kinds of open sandwich. — 2020
Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
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(UK) A layer cake or sandwich cake.
- […] our local agricultural fair in Warwickshire even has a category for Victoria sandwiches baked by male bakers. — 2016
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(no longer used) A sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board).
- We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'. — 2004

verb5

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To place (an item) physically between two other, usually flat, items.
- We saw a few Gresley Moguls on goods, as a limited amount of freight traffic was sandwiched in even on this busy day. — 1951
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(figurative) To put or set between two other events in time.
- Street BASIC is becoming the language taught in junior high; it is sandwiched between Logo, which is taught in elementary school, and Pascal, which is taught in high school. — 1988
(slang) To double penetrate.
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(informal) To feed sandwiches to.
- But one or two evil-disposed characters muttered they might be sure the lady had her own turn to serve, and they might be sure they wasn't "teaed and muffined and sandwiched for nothing!" — 1866
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(rare) To eat sandwiches.
- Mr. and Mrs. Ted Craig (he^([sic]) speaker of the assembly) emerging from a popular drive-in after having sandwiched and coffeed . . . — 1935

adjective1

(US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

forms

sandwiched · sandwiching · sandwiches · Sandwiches · sandwichs

Phrases with sandwich

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