submarine sandwich

Questions about submarine sandwich

What does submarine sandwich mean?

submarine 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 submarine sandwich?

Close synonyms include bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie. 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 submarine sandwich a common word?

submarine 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.