submarine sandwich
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
US ante-1940. From its resemblance to a submarine.
Noun[edit]
submarine sandwich (plural submarine sandwiches)
- (US, Canada) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll split lengthwise.
- 1942, Ludwig Bemelmans, “Vacation”, in I Love You, I Love You, I Love You![2], New York: Viking Press, pages 147–148:
- "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—"
Synonyms[edit]
- sub, sub sandwich, submarine; bomber (Buffalo, New York); Cuban sandwich (Miami); garibaldi (Madison, Wisconsin); grinder (New England); hero sandwich, hero (New York City); hoagie, hoggie (Pennsylvania); Italian sandwich, Italian (Maine); musalatta (New Orleans); poor boy, po' boy, poboy (Louisiana); rocket (Cheyenne, Cincinnati); spuckie (Boston); torpedo (North East USA); wedge, wedgie (Westchester, New York); zeppelin (Norristown, Pennsylvania)[1]
Hypernyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
sub — see sub
References[edit]
- ^ Eames, Edwin, Robboy, Howard (1967 December) “The Submarine Sandwich, Lexical Variations in a Cultural Context”, in American Speech[1], volume 42, number 4, , →JSTOR, pages 279–288.