sandwich

noun

1. 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.”

2. (broadly)Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
3. (UK)A layer cake or sandwich cake.

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

4. (archaic)A sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board).

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

5. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of sandwich.

   “I dined at the Cocoa Tree […] That reſpectable body, of which I have the honour of being a member, affords every evening a ſight truly English. Twenty or thirty, perhaps, of the firſt men in the kingdom, in point of faſhion and fortune, ſupping at little tables covered with a napkin, in the middle of a coffee-room, upon a bit of cold meat, or a Sandwich, and drinking a glaſs of punch.”

   “Sir Ch[ristopher]. Not a morſel, Tom, if you would give me the univerſe. / Rack[et]. Pooh, man, only a Sandwich or ſo.”

   “A Receipt to thin the Houſe of Commons. Put Mr. Martin in the chair—let Mr. Alderman Watſon have the opening ſpeech—Mr. Hawkins Brown the anſwer—Mr. Drake the reply—Mr. Beaufoy the rejoinder—and forbid the eating of Sandwiches in the gallery. Probatum eſt!”

   “Anstruther is a mighty good ſort of a man—but every man is not born an orator; even Mrs. Anſtruther, who has an excellent underſtanding, is obliged to have recourſe to Sandwiches, to render the unavoidable attendance ſupportable.”

   “While many a suitor, / And gay coadjutor / In the eating-and-drinking line, scorns to be neuter; / One, being perhaps just return’d with his tutor / From travel in England, is tempting his “future” / With a luxury neat as imported, “The Pewter,” / And charming the dear Violantes and Iñeses / With a three-corner’d Sandwich, and soupçon of “Guinness’s;” / While another, from Paris but newly come back, / Hints “the least taste in life” of the best cogniac.”

verb

1. (transitive)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.”

   “An oddity of the auto-train services, incidentally, was the occasional "doubling", usually for football excursions, when the load was increased to four coaches with the engine sandwiched between.”

   “But as the game looked destined for a stalemate at half-time, the hammer blow arrived. A corner was just about cleared, only for the Scots to switch off. Vladimir Coufal overlapped with space and time on his side, his delivery being met by Schick, who steered his header home while sandwiched between Liam Cooper and Grant Hanley.”

   “One can't escape the huge nuclear facility at Sellafield (supplier of much of the line's remaining freight traffic), or miss the wild shingle beaches with exposed and precarious bungalows sandwiched between the railway and the shore at Braystones.”

2. (figuratively, transitive)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.”

   “Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.”

3. (transitive)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”

4. (informal, transitive)To feed sandwiches to.

   “But one or two evil-disposed characters muttered they might be sure the lady had her own turn to serve, and they might be sure they wasn't "teaed and muffined and sandwiched for nothing!"”

   “The association of veteran firemen, which has a membership of 200, kept open house for New Year callers, and all comers were bountifully sandwiched and coffeed.”

   “Here at Camp Wheeler we “coffeed” and “sandwiched” the drafted men when they came from Camp Gordon several weeks ago, and the men from Camp Pike more recently.”

   “There we were met by enterprising citizens and coffeed and sandwiched by pretty girls.”

   “Five soldiers had been sandwiched and coffeed at the Elks canteen, were a little short of money, needed haircuts.”

5. (intransitive, rare)To eat sandwiches.

   “Mr. and Mrs. Ted Craig (he^([sic]) speaker of the assembly) emerging from a popular drive-in after having sandwiched and coffeed . . .”

   “He coffeed and sandwiched along the highway.”

   “The Red Knight and his squire might be sandwiching at the very next table.”

adj

1. (US, not-comparable)Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

name

1. A town and civil parish with a town council in Dover district, Kent, southeastern England, one of the historic Cinque Ports (OS grid ref TR3258).
2. An English habitational surname originating from this town.

   “The young lady, who made her firſt appearance in Lady Bab Lardoon, at the Haymarket on Monday night laſt, is a Miſs Prideaux, and lineally deſcended from one of the daughters and co-heireſſes of the Right Hon. John Wilmot, the witty Earl of Rocheſter, and conſequently related to the Sandwiches, Pomfrets, Coopers, and many other noble families.”

3. One of several younger towns named after the town in Kent or after a person bearing the surname:
4. One of several younger towns named after the town in Kent or after a person bearing the surname:
5. One of several younger towns named after the town in Kent or after a person bearing the surname: