sandwich

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Two slices of bread with a filling between them.

   I had a cheese sandwich for lunch.

2. 2
   verb

   To squeeze something tightly between two other things.

   I was sandwiched between two big men on the crowded train.

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

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