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sandwiching

sandwiching is the present participle and gerund of sandwich.

Meaning of sandwich

Verb

sandwich (third-person singular simple present sandwiches, present participle sandwiching, simple past and past participle sandwiched)

  1. (transitive) 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 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 46
  2. (figuratively, transitive) 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, Cynthia Solomon, Computer Environments for Children, page 94
  3. (transitive) 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 nipples2017, Madhuri Pavamani, Juma
  4. (informal, transitive) 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, Emma Jane Worboise, “The St. Beetha’s Temperance Society”, in St. Beetha’s; or, The Heiress of Arne, London: “Christian World” Office, […]; Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, […], →OCLC, page 213
  5. (intransitive, 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 June 29, Ellen Snebley, “Teapot Tattle”, in Santa Ana Journal, volume 1, number 52, Santa Ana, Calif., page eight

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Questions about sandwiching

What is sandwiching the present participle and gerund of?
Sandwiching is the present participle and gerund of sandwich.

Words near sandwiching in the dictionary

  1. Sandwicher
  2. sandwicheries
  3. Sandwichers
  4. sandwichery
  5. sandwiches
  6. sandwiching
  7. sandwichless
  8. sandwichlike
  9. sandwichman
  10. sandwichmen
  11. sandwichness

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