two or more slices of bread with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between them.
a tuna sandwich.
a partially slit bread roll, pita, etc., with a filling.
a falafel sandwich.
something resembling or suggesting a sandwich, as something in horizontal layers.
a plywood sandwich.
to put into a sandwich.
to insert between two other things.
to sandwich a personal appointment between two business meetings.
two or more slices of bread, usually buttered, with a filling of meat, cheese, etc
anything that resembles a sandwich in arrangement
to insert tightly between two other things
to put into a sandwich
to place between two dissimilar things
First recorded in 1755–65; named after the fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718–92)
A sandwich is a meal in the form of two pieces of bread with meat, cheese, or some other filling between them. Your favorite lunch might be a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. When you put something between slices of bread, it's a sandwich. It's named for the Fourth Earl of Sandwich who's credited with inventing it. Sandwich is a verb too, that describes putting something between two other things, like sandwiching gym class between math and lunch. Sometimes sandwich involves being squeezed uncomfortably, like having to sandwich yourself between people on a crowded elevator or subway car.
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From Barron's • May 20, 2026
Others hold at most a single raspberry and two tiny peanut butter sandwich crackers.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
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From BBC • May 13, 2026
Beside her on the brass fender of the hearth a tea was laid out: steaming thimbles and a variety of crumbs; tea cake and crumpet and cucumber sandwich, on polished British pennies.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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