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Dagwood (sandwich)

(dagwo̵od′)

noun

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

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

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