sandwich

Forms

1.A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.
- The most famous place in Copenhagen, Ida Davidsen, has a menu of 190 different kinds of open sandwich.
2.Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
3.A layer cake or sandwich cake.

1.To place (an item) physically between two other, usually flat, items.
- We saw a few Gresley Moguls on goods, as a limited amount of freight traffic was sandwiched in even on this busy day.
- An oddity of the auto-train services, incidentally, was the occasional "doubling", usually for football excursions, when the load was increased to four coaches with the engine sandwiched between.
2.To put or set between two other events in time.
- Street BASIC is becoming the language taught in junior high; it is sandwiched between Logo, which is taught in elementary school, and Pascal, which is taught in high school.
3.To double penetrate.
4.To feed sandwiches to.(informal)
- I clothed desperate families, and sandwiched and teaed many distracted souls.
- There we were met by enterprising citizens and coffeed and sandwiched by pretty girls.
- “In the daytimes, he fixes things for people,” I said, “and in return they keep him sandwiched and coffeed.”

Uncommon· #3485

Named after its supposed inventor, the Earl of Sandwich (see Sandwich).