bacon sanger
- noun
- Australian
:
sándwich de tocino
- I had a bacon sanger for breakfast.
Examples
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He stopped by the café and ordered a bacon sanger to go.
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Nothing beats a freshly made bacon sanger with extra crispy bacon.
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After a long night, all I wanted was a hot bacon sanger for breakfast.
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Do you want a bacon sanger?
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After a long night, all I wanted was a hot bacon sanger for breakfast.
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He stopped by the café and ordered a bacon sanger to go.
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Nothing beats a freshly made bacon sanger with extra crispy bacon.
Synonyms
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Morphology
bacon + sanger
The phrase is a straightforward noun-noun compound: 'bacon' modifies 'sanger' (a dialectal Australian form of 'sandwich'), so the meaning 'bacon sandwich' is directly derivable from the parts. Although 'sanger' is informal regional slang, the compositional pattern is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would infer a sandwich containing bacon.
Etymology
The informal term bacon sanger comes from shortening 'sandwich' to sanger in Australian speech. Imagine someone saying 'bacon sandwich' quickly and you get bacon inside a sanger, so it means 'a bacon sandwich'.