Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Wiktionary
- n. A sandwich made on a (usually soft) long Italian roll.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a large sandwich on a long crusty roll that is split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the U. S., such as
hero ,grinder , andsubmarine .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
Etymologies
- Alteration of hoggy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A hoagie is a sandwich -- or as Sinatra would have called it, 'a sangwich '-- made with fresh, thinly sliced lunch meats and provolone cheese on an Italian roll, stuffed with pickles, hot peppers and just anything else edible that could be found behind the counter.”
“While the exact origin of the multimeat Italian sandwich (grinder, hero, sub, et al.) is debatable, it seems the "hoagie" originated in South Philly.”
“His nose was the size of a hoagie bread, his mouth — his lips — those of a donkey's.”
Fictionaut: Grand Heads for America: A Fable of Exceptionalism
“Move from a whole bagel to a bialy or English muffin, from a sub, hoagie, or plain roll to sliced bread.”
“If you order a sandwich on bread with a doughy inside including bagels, long steak or hoagie rolls, and plain hard or soft rolls, ask to have the inside scooped out before the filling is added.”
“According to their web site, it's a "hot dog stuffed inside a bratwurst, stuffed inside a kielbasa, topped with sauerkraut and mustard, and served on a hoagie roll.”
“Serve over polenta, or with penne pasta, or load up in a hoagie roll.”
Sausage, Peppers and Onions : The Cooking Adventures of Chef Paz
“Mark offers to go get me a hoagie for lunch and I give him a few dollars.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hoagie’.
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250 Extra Spelling Words
Some more words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
cultellarius, barouche, palanquin, badelaire, cavetto, tregetour, tergiversate, rhododendron, rhadamanthine, thyrsus, cappelletti, bradycardia and 238 more...
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Are you from Pennsylvania?
List contains answers to the question: Are you from PA?
gum band, stillers, pahrits, sticker bush, crick, yinz, yoose, ohia, jumbo, knows the differe..., i can pronounce w..., sammich and 41 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, H
hurlyburly, hurtle, hodgepodge, heartwood, hatch, halo, hooptedoodle, hacienda, hairpin, heyday, hardscrabble, hopper and 208 more...
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Ugliest Words Ever
words that I refuse to say out loud.
tuna, uranus, bulbous, vaginal, rectum, cunnilingus, flatulance, pedagogy, blooper, booger, beefy, polyp and 116 more...
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Food
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spaghetti, yogurt, muesli, rarebit, wheat, cream, cheese, pumpkin, custard, couscous, oats, sausage and 237 more...
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Words That Sound Dirty but Really Aren't
annals, assassinate, bisect, bubbly, caucus, caulk, colloquialism, concoct, condominium, congeal, congenital, convex and 131 more...
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Light my word
polliwog, chillout, uliginose, discrepancy, chide, protuberance, peer group, deipnosophist, dweeb, reify, polyglot, osculation and 28 more...
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Sandwich words
hoagie, hero, grinder, po boy, torpedo, reuben sandwich, open-faced, french dip sandwich, kaiser roll, blt, bagel, delicatessen and 41 more...
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Ugly Words
Words that just sound ugly, gross, or unpleasant, regardless of what their definitions may be.
bucolic, hoagie, puke, pulchritude, cunt, phlegm, pustule, cloaca, crepuscule, fecund, puce, phlegmatic and 6 more...
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my hero
types of sandwich
sandwich, sammich, sarnie, butty, hero, hoagie, submarine, wrap, panini, melt, burger, po' boy and 15 more...
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A sandwich by any other name. . .
hero, hoagie, gyro, wedge, submarine, torpedo, zep, poor boy, grinder, bahn mi, sammich, wrap and 10 more...
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Food and Beverage
phyllo, beurre, habanero, cordon bleu, coleslaw, corvina, au gratin, poblano, frittata, sabayon, meritage, côte a l’os and 85 more...
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Words that make my stomach turn:
loaf, chunk, moist, heft, poodle, curb, scab, mucus, panties, giblets, luncheon, hunk and 54 more...
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