Dagwood sandwich

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English

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A Dagwood sandwich

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Etymology

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Named after American comic strip character Dagwood Bumstead, a character in the American comic strip Blondie.

Noun

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Dagwood sandwich (plural Dagwood sandwiches)

  1. (informal) An exceptionally thick sandwich made with numerous layers of various meats, cheeses, vegetables, and condiments.
    • 1980, Arthur Asa Berger, Television As An instrument of Terror, →ISBN, page 76:
      The kind of sandwich he made famous, the Dagwood sandwich, is a hodgepodge of leftovers in the refrigerator all wedged in between two slices of bread.
    • 1999 September 7, Tom Zeller, “Nutrition: When Refrigerator Raiders Lose Control”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 April 2014:
      Everyone gets the late-night munchies now and then, whether for rocky road ice cream or a Dagwood sandwich of salami, pickles and deli Swiss on rye.
    • 2012 November 1, Brian Truitt, “Dagwood runs for president in longtime 'Blondie' strip”, in USA Today, retrieved 19 April 2014:
      And who wouldn't like to think of the Dagwood sandwich somewhere on the White House menu?
  2. (figuratively, by extension) A thick stack of flat objects or a complicated melange of diverse components or ingredients.

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