Dagwood sandwich

[ dag-wood ]

noun

1. a thick sandwich filled with a variety of meats, cheeses, dressings, and condiments.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Dagwood sandwich¹

Named after Dagwood Bumstead, a character in the comic strip Blondie, who makes and eats such sandwiches

Example Sentences

Then this whole Dagwood sandwich of cinematic styles gets smoothified in the blender of hyperactive 21st-century streaming drama.

From New York Times

A “secret” menu item at Arby’s, the Meat Mountain, a Dagwood sandwich containing all eight varieties of meat on its menu, was initially said by company representatives to have been inspired by an ad campaign featuring meat stacked like geological strata.

From The New Yorker

The really weird part is that the interplay between salty water and ices with different crystal structures and different densities could continue upward, creating what Vance calls, in a reference that will be lost on anyone under 50, a “Dagwood sandwich” structure in Ganymede’s ocean, with alternating layers of water and ice.

From Time

The setup again is a Dagwood sandwich of horror tropes, but with different ingredients: naughty nuns, vivisection, exorcism and, I kid you not, aliens.

From Time

As one of Groucho Marx's writers told it: an unemployed actor was interrupted at breakfast by his wife carrying a Dagwood sandwich of unpaid bills.

From Time Magazine Archive