Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
noun
Synonym of submarine sandwich.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Qualifier: especially the Deep South
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: submarine sandwich
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sandwich, food
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see poor, boy: especially, an impoverished male child.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: bankrupt, beggar, indigent, insolvent, have not, lack-all, Lazarus, pauper, penny-father, poor
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sandwich
History
Generally agreed to have originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the early 1920s; the explanation for exactly how the term arose is disputed, as discussed in Wikipedia at po' boy § Etymology.
Across languages
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
