What does "blt" mean?

Initialism of bacon, lettuce and tomato: a sandwich made with these main ingredients.

How do you pronounce "blt"?

Pronounced //ˌbiː.ɛlˈtiː//.

Common synonyms include: bacon lettuce tomato sandwich, bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, canape, grinder, hamburger, hoagy.

//ˌbiː.ɛlˈtiː// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Noun

1
Initialism of bacon, lettuce and tomato: a sandwich made with these main ingredients. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"I wish I could make everyone a BLT. That would be the end of the golden arches, I'm sure of it. There are times when the BLT just tastes right, primal and true, the best thing you could ever eat."
2
sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce wordnet
3
Initialism of ballistic lunar transfer. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

"This food called BLT; what's in it?"

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.