ploughman's lunch

1. 1.

   a meal consisting of a sandwich of bread and cheese and a salad

   Broadermeal

   United Kingdom

Questions about ploughman's lunch

What does ploughman's lunch mean?

ploughman's lunch means "a meal consisting of a sandwich of bread and cheese and a salad".

Is ploughman's lunch a common word?

ploughman's lunch 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.