"Sandwich" Definition

Definitions for the word "Sandwich" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
1 two or more slices of bread with a filling. 2 layered cake with jam or cream. v. 1 put (a thing, statement, etc.) Between two of another character. 2 squeeze in between others (sat sandwiched in the middle). [from the earl of sandwich]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
4. slang
a human advertising medium, placed between two boards strapped, one on his breast the other on his shoulders. A “toad in the hole” is the term applied to the same individual when his person is confined by a four-sided box. A gentleman with a lady on each arm is sometimes called a SANDWICH. The French phrase for this kind of SANDWICH, _l’âne à deux pannières_, is expressive.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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