sandwich man
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sandwich man
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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“I was a sandwich man for years in a canteen in an office building on Madison and 50th Street,” he said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2010
On a tour of Manhattan he shows her magic in a sandwich man whose shirt front lights up, in an enormous neon dragon above Times Square, in the whistling convolutions of a popcorn machine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Algernon Copplestone, husband of the town Mayor, history professor, accidentally burned down his neighbor's house, disguised himself as a sandwich man, set forth to roam the roads—a free man at last.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the hall, weary newsmen despaired when Claude, the beer and sandwich man, went home muttering "No one pays me to stay after 12."
From Time Magazine Archive
The regular “Yankee Clipper” sandwich man, when he came back, was put on another train.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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