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sub sandwich

sub sandwich is the clipping of submarine sandwich.

Meaning of submarine sandwich

Noun

submarine sandwich (plural submarine sandwiches)

  1. (Canada, US) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll split lengthwise; it typically contains meats and cheeses.
    • "Well, honey, you can have spaghetti and meat balls," said the girl. "But why don't you order a submarine sandwich? My, that's good! Mmm."
    • "What is a submarine sandwich?"
    • "Well, a submarine sandwich comes two ways, the 15¢ one is seven inches long, and for a quarter you get one twelve inches long—"1942, Ludwig Bemelmans, “Vacation”, in I Love You, I Love You, I Love You!, New York: Viking Press, pages 147–148

Forms of sub sandwich

pluralsub sandwiches

Questions about sub sandwich

What is sub sandwich the clipping of?
Sub sandwich is the clipping of submarine sandwich.

Words near sub sandwich in the dictionary

  1. sub out
  2. sub pixel-perfect
  3. sub prefecture
  4. sub prefectures
  5. sub rosa
  6. sub sandwich
  7. sub sandwiches
  8. sub silencio
  9. sub specie aeterni
  10. sub tender
  11. sub tenders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sub sandwich (page history and authors); submarine sandwich (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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