dagwood sandwich
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Dagwood sandwich¹
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Named after American comic strip character Dagwood Bumstead, a character in the American comic strip Blondie.
noun Dagwood sandwiches · dagwood sandwich
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An exceptionally thick sandwich made with numerous layers of various meats, cheeses, vegetables, and condiments.
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.
Similar: dag, Dag, dag sandwich, Dag sandwich, Dagwood, dagwood
- A thick stack of flat objects or a complicated melange of diverse components or ingredients. As one of Groucho Marx's writers told it: an unemployed actor was interrupted at breakfast by his wife carrying a Dagwood sandwich of unpaid bills.
dagwood sandwich²
noun dagwood sandwiches
- Alternative form of Dagwood sandwich
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noun exceptionally thick sandwich
| Français | dagwood |
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