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POOR BOY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

bomber; Cuban sandwich; grinder; hero; hero sandwich; hoagie; hoagy; Italian sandwich; poor boy; sub; submarine; submarine sandwich; torpedo; wedge; zep

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("poor boy" is a kind of...):

sandwich (two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them)

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 Context examples: 

The worst of it is that the poor boy will keep on this way until he deteriorates into a first-class newspaper man and also a first-class scoundrel.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If he asked her to deliver a Latin oration, it would not have seemed a more impossible task to bashful Beth, but there was no place to run to, no Jo to hide behind now, and the poor boy looked so wistfully at her that she bravely resolved to try.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)