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hoagie

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10
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10
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6
Pronunciation
/ˈhoʊ.ɡi/(US)

Definition of hoagie

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Mid-Atlantic, Pennsylvania, US)A sandwich made on a long Italian bread or Italian roll.
    “I'm going to Wawa to get a hoagie for lunch. Do any of yuhz want anything?”
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noun

  1. (Mid-Atlantic, Pennsylvania, US)A sandwich made on a long Italian bread or Italian roll.
    “I'm going to Wawa to get a hoagie for lunch. Do any of yuhz want anything?”
  2. (Scotland)A tortilla or chapati wrap filled with meat (usually doner kebab meat; seasoned lamb or mutton), chips and cheese.
    “Known as a "hoagie", the combination of chips, doner kebab meat and cheese - which contains 136g of fat and 1224 calories - has been identified as the unhealthiest fastfood meal served to pupils in a recent survey.”
    “Many of my early paychecks from waitressing at 15 were spent on hoagies; fat and sauce dripping down my chin as the beige delights in the wrap merged together to create a wrong-but-right finished product.”

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Etymology

Uncertain. Often suggested to derive from hog, either in reference to Hog Island, a site of shipyards that employed Italian immigrants (who were supposedly called hoggies and who supposedly packed these sandwiches for lunch), or in reference to pork as an ingredient.

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