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hoagie

/ˈhoʊ.ɡi/

hoagie noun: a sandwich made on a long Italian bread or Italian roll.

hoagie: a sandwich made on a long Italian bread or Italian roll
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Noun (1)

hoagie (plural hoagies)

  1. (Mid-Atlantic, Pennsylvania, US) A sandwich made on a long Italian bread or Italian roll.
    • I'm going to Wawa to get a hoagie for lunch. Do any of yuhz want anything?
    Synonyms:
    submarine sandwich, more there

Noun (2)

hoagie (plural hoagies)

  1. (Scotland, chiefly Central Belt) A tortilla or chapati wrap filled with meat (usually doner kebab meat; seasoned lamb or mutton), chips and cheese.
    • Known as a "hoagie", the combination of chips, doner kebab meat and cheese - which contains 136g of fat and 1224 calories - has been identified as the unhealthiest fastfood meal served to pupils in a recent survey.2005 August 20, “Forget turkey twizzlers... the 1200-calorie hoagie has arrived Takeaways used by school pupils to be told how to make their food more healthy”, in The Herald
    • Many of my early paychecks from waitressing at 15 were spent on hoagies; fat and sauce dripping down my chin as the beige delights in the wrap merged together to create a wrong-but-right finished product.2018 August 24, Jessica Lindsay, “Central Scotland’s hoagie wrap is a thing to behold”, in Metro

hoagie meaning in Bengali

hoagie in Bengali

একটি সাবমেরিন স্যান্ডউইচ, মশলাদার ভেড়া, চিপস এবং চিজ থাকে

Synonyms of hoagie

Forms of hoagie

pluralhoagies
alternative formhoagy
alternative formhoggie

Origin of hoagie

Uncertain. Often suggested to derive from hog, either in reference to Hog Island, a site of shipyards that employed Italian immigrants (who were supposedly called hoggies and who supposedly packed these sandwiches for lunch), or in reference to pork as an ingredient.

Uncertain.

Words that rhyme with hoagie

Questions about hoagie

What does hoagie mean?
Hoagie means a sandwich made on a long Italian bread or Italian roll.
What is hoagie in Bengali?
Hoagie in Bengali is একটি সাবমেরিন স্যান্ডউইচ, মশলাদার ভেড়া, চিপস এবং চিজ থাকে. See Hoagie meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is hoagie?
Hoagie is a noun.
How do you pronounce hoagie?
Hoagie is pronounced /ˈhoʊ.ɡi/ (US).
What is the plural of hoagie?
The plural of hoagie is hoagies.

Words near hoagie in the dictionary

  1. hoactzin
  2. hoactzins
  3. Hoadley
  4. Hoadleys
  5. Hoag
  6. hoagie
  7. hoagies
  8. Hoagland
  9. Hoagland solution
  10. Hoaglands
  11. Hoaglin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hoagie (page history and authors); hoagie (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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