hero sandwich

Questions about hero sandwich

What does hero sandwich mean?

hero sandwich means "a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States".

What is another word for hero sandwich?

Close synonyms include bomber, grinder, hero, hoagie, hoagy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hero sandwich a common word?

hero sandwich is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.