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Sanger

//ˈsæŋə// name, noun, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname originating as an occupation.

    "Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger is alleging that the online encyclopedia has a left-leaning bias and “a lot of problems,” and recently released a nine-point plan to fix it."

  2. 2
    A place in the United States:; A city in Fresno County, California.
  3. 3
    A place in the United States:; A ghost town in Oliver County, North Dakota.
  4. 4
    A place in the United States:; A city in Denton County, Texas.
  5. 5
    A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.
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  1. 6
    A locality in the Federation council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
Noun
  1. 1
    A sandwich. Australia, colloquial, informal

    "[…]I popped the last of the strawberry sangers into my mouth, craned my neck over the bureaucrat′s gelati-hued shoulder and feasted my eyes."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of sangar. alt-of, alternative

    "The enemy had a line of sangers along the far edge of nullah right across the valley, with sangers at intervals up the steep mountains on either side into the snows, and occupied, as far as we could guess, by some 2,000 men."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced "sangwich") + -er (colloquialising suffix). Australian from 1960s.

Etymology 2

An occupational surname from Middle English, from Old English sangere (“singer”).

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