Meaning

1 senses

  1. (Australia, colloquial, informal)A sandwich.

More definitions
  • United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood; she challenged Gregory Pincus to develop a birth control pill (1883-1966)
  • English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918)

Origin

Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced sangwich) + -er (colloquialising suffix). Australian

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

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Forms

plural: sangers
Singularsanger
Pluralsangers

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
sambosammiesammosangosarnie
Close in meaning
  • United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood; she challenged Gregory Pincus to develop a birth control pill (1883-1966):Margaret SangerMargaret Higgins Sanger
  • English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918):Frederick SangerFred Sanger

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sandwichA1sandyA2sanesangriasanitaryB2sanitationB2
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