Dagwood

Variant of Dagwood (sandwich)

Dagwood (sandwich) definition

☆ Dag·wood· (sandwich) (dag′wo̵od′)

noun

a thick sandwich with a variety of fillings, often of apparently incompatible foods

Etymology: after Dagwood Bumstead, a comic-strip character created by Chic Young (1901-73), who made such sandwiches for himself

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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