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sandwich

nounverbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ//
  • United Kingdom//ˈsæn(d).wɪt͡ʃ//
  • United Kingdom/[ˈsæm.wɪd͡ʒ]/
  • United Kingdom/[ˈsæ̃.wɪd͡ʒ]/
  • Canada//ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ//

A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.

noun

  1. 1

    A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.

    The most famous place in Copenhagen, Ida Davidsen, has a menu of 190 different kinds of open sandwich.

  2. 2

    Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.

  3. 3

    A layer cake or sandwich cake.

    […] our local agricultural fair in Warwickshire even has a category for Victoria sandwiches baked by male bakers.

  4. 4

    archaicA sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board).

    We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'.

Etymology

Named after its supposed inventor, the Earl of Sandwich (see Sandwich).

verb

  1. 1

    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.

    An oddity of the auto-train services, incidentally, was the occasional "doubling", usually for football excursions, when the load was increased to four coaches with the engine sandwiched between.

    But as the game looked destined for a stalemate at half-time, the hammer blow arrived. A corner was just about cleared, only for the Scots to switch off. Vladimir Coufal overlapped with space and time on his side, his delivery being met by Schick, who steered his header home while sandwiched between Liam Cooper and Grant Hanley.

    One can't escape the huge nuclear facility at Sellafield (supplier of much of the line's remaining freight traffic), or miss the wild shingle beaches with exposed and precarious bungalows sandwiched between the railway and the shore at Braystones.

  2. 2

    figurativeTo 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.

    Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.

  3. 3

    To double penetrate.

    They sandwiched her, the footballer at her back, his dick tucked into the perfect seam of her ass as he fingered her pussy while the shorter, leaner, covered-in-tattoos Monsieur Artiste kissed her and pinched her nipples

  4. 4

    informalTo 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!"

    The association of veteran firemen, which has a membership of 200, kept open house for New Year callers, and all comers were bountifully sandwiched and coffeed.

    Here at Camp Wheeler we “coffeed” and “sandwiched” the drafted men when they came from Camp Gordon several weeks ago, and the men from Camp Pike more recently.

    There we were met by enterprising citizens and coffeed and sandwiched by pretty girls.

  5. 5

    rareTo eat sandwiches.

    Mr. and Mrs. Ted Craig (he^([sic]) speaker of the assembly) emerging from a popular drive-in after having sandwiched and coffeed . . .

    He coffeed and sandwiched along the highway.

    The Red Knight and his squire might be sandwiching at the very next table.

adjective

  1. 1

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

Forms

plural
sandwiches, sandwichs
past tense
sandwiched
past participle
sandwiched
present participle
sandwiching
third person singular
sandwiches
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).