sandwich

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   two or more slices of bread with a filling between them

   I had a sandwich for lunch.

2. 2
   verb

   insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects

   I was sandwiched in an airplane seat between two other passengers.

3. 3
   noun

   A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.

   The most famous place in Copenhagen, Ida Davidsen, has a menu of 190 different kinds of open sandwich.

4. 4
   noun

   A layer cake or sandwich cake.

   […] our local agricultural fair in Warwickshire even has a category for Victoria sandwiches baked by male bakers.

5. 5
   noun

   A sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board).

   We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'.

6. 6
   verb

   To place (an item) physically between two other, usually flat, items.

   We saw a few Gresley Moguls on goods, as a limited amount of freight traffic was sandwiched in even on this busy day.

7. 7
   verb

   To put or set between two other events in time.

   Street BASIC is becoming the language taught in junior high; it is sandwiched between Logo, which is taught in elementary school, and Pascal, which is taught in high school.

8. 8
   verb

   To double penetrate.

   They sandwiched her, the footballer at her back, his dick tucked into the perfect seam of her ass as he fingered her pussy while the shorter, leaner, covered-in-tattoos Monsieur Artiste kissed her and pinched her nipples

Etymology

The family name is from Old English Sandwīċ, from sand + wīċ (“wick, settlement, harbour, hamlet”), equivalent to sand + -wich.