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footlong

footlong adjective: one foot long.

Adjective

footlong (not comparable)

  1. One foot long.
    • Like carved teak statues with footlong cigars stuck in their wooden faces, the two old creatures gazed at the 'Ingaleikma' as English yokels might gaze at a Zulu warrior in full regalia.1934, George Orwell, chapter 5, in Burmese Days

Noun

footlong (plural footlongs)

  1. A hot dog or submarine sandwich measuring a foot in length.

footlong meaning in Bengali

footlong in Bengali

এক ফুট লম্বা

Forms of footlong

pluralfootlongs

Origin of footlong

From foot + long.

Questions about footlong

What does footlong mean?
Footlong means one foot long.
What is footlong in Bengali?
Footlong in Bengali is এক ফুট লম্বা. See Footlong meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is footlong?
Footlong can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near footlong in the dictionary

  1. footlit
  2. footlocker
  3. footlockers
  4. footlog
  5. footlogs
  6. footlong
  7. footlongs
  8. footloose
  9. footloose and fancy free
  10. footloose and fancy-free
  11. footlooseness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footlong (page history and authors); footlong (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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