sub
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2.8
- noun
- /sʌb/
- Informal
:
sándwich
- For lunch, I ordered a delicious sub filled with turkey, lettuce, and tomato.
- sub sandwich
- meatball sub
- Italian sub
I feel like the meatball sub was the only hot sub.
- I feel like the meatball sub was the only hot sub.
- And, boy, that tuna sub at the airport was.
- You have options for meatball Subs, Turkey clubs, all kinds of stuff.
- I was just hanging out, you know, living in Jersey, eating pizza, Subs, sandwiches.
- I order every single day a ham sub sandwich with extra meat and cheese.
- The last president would never share a sub or really any sandwich and.
- Oh yeah, we did like pub Subs and a bunch of like breakfast food and stuff.
Examples
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The North calls this a sub, while the South calls it a hoagie.
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I feel like the meatball sub was the only hot sub.
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I think... is the Italian sub any good?
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I got you a sub.
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Let's get to the sub.
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I order every single day a ham sub sandwich with extra meat and cheese.
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I thought you were workin' at the sub shop.
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I can't wait to dig into that party sub.
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The Boston Italian meatball sub made by a Greek in an Irish neighborhood is a unique experience.
Fiction book (1994) -
I got you two meatball subs.
Synonyms
800
1.0
Two slices of bread with food like meat or cheese between them for a meal
11
8.2
A large sandwich on a long roll filled with meat, cheese, and vegetables
11
2.7
A long bread roll cut open and filled with meat, cheese, and vegetables
11
4.4
A long sandwich filled with meat, cheese, and vegetables
10
8.9
A large sandwich made from a long roll split lengthwise and filled with meat
9
8.3
A large sandwich on a long roll filled with meats and cheese
6
5.0
A long sandwich filled with meat, cheese, and vegetables
4
7.7
A large sandwich on a long crusty roll with meat and cheese
3
3.2
A long sandwich filled with meat, cheese and salad
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2.1
A long bread roll split open and filled with meats, cheese, and salad vegetables
1
2.8
A large sandwich on a long crusty roll filled with meats, cheese, and vegetables
1
8.4
A sandwich made with bread and a filling like ham and cheese
1
9.9
A large sandwich on a long crusty roll filled with meats, cheese, and lettuce
A large sandwich made from a long crusty roll filled with meat and cheese
A large sandwich made with a long crusty roll filled with meats, cheese, and vegetables
Idioms
- Informal
A joking mock-Latin phrase that says 'always wear underwear' to make people laugh
Compounds
How Big
- Informal
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2.8
8
3.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sub is short for submarine sandwich, named because the long roll looks like a small 'submarine' or boat. So a sub is a long sandwich filled with meat, cheese and vegetables.