chef 's salad

American  

noun

1. a salad typically consisting of thin strips of chicken, ham, and Swiss cheese on a bed of lettuce, sometimes with slices or quarters of hard-boiled eggs and tomatoes; usually served as a main course.

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Example Sentences

Debbie arrived to help with the lunch rush, and she greeted customers at the register, while Joe prepared tomato sauce and weighed out 2.2 ounces of turkey for each chef’s salad.

From New York Times

She'd get the chef's salad with Thousand Island dressing, while I'd go for the open-faced turkey sandwich topped with a peppery brown gravy.

From Salon

When we were lucky enough to be taken out to a restaurant for dinner when I was a kid, I was thrilled to order the chef’s salad, the classic, protein-packed one often said to have been popularized in the 1940s by Louis Diat, the chef of the Ritz-Carlton in New York.

From New York Times

But no one ordering a club sandwich would expect a regular sandwich topped with a chef’s salad.

From New York Times

I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef's salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce.

From Literature