sanger
noun/ˈsæŋə/
Etymology
Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced sangwich) + -er (colloquialising suffix). Australian from 1960s.
- inherited from sangere
Definitions
A sandwich.
- […]I popped the last of the strawberry sangers into my mouth, craned my neck over the bureaucrat′s gelati-hued shoulder and feasted my eyes.
- Eat Rock oysters, rock lobsters, yabbies and prawns; also Turkish bread ‘sangers’ and Tim Tam shooters
Alternative form of sangar.
- The enemy had a line of sangers along the far edge of nullah right across the valley, with sangers at intervals up the steep mountains on either side into the snows, and occupied, as far as we could guess, by some 2,000 men.
- […]the Boer marksmen leaned over their sangers and fired on the helmeted heads below them.
A surname originating as an occupation.
- Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger is alleging that the online encyclopedia has a left-leaning bias and “a lot of problems,” and recently released a nine-point plan to fix it.
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A place in the United States
A place in the United States:
A locality in the Federation council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for sanger. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA