POOR BOY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poor boy mean? 

• POOR BOY (noun)
  The noun POOR BOY has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: POOR BOY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POOR BOY (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

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

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

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

 Context examples 

Wake that poor boy, and let him come and see the last; he trusts us, and we have promised him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She burst into tears, and began to moan, "My poor boy, my poor boy!"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You can imagine how terrified the poor boy was!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Now I must go and prepare Mr. Laurence to be very kind to my poor boy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Oh, how my poor boy cries!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

John gambles dreadfully, and always loses—poor boy!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But, could you be comfortable yourself, to be spending the whole evening away from the poor boy?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The poor boy was half crazed with grief, and yet he had to go to London to play this match, for he could not get out of it without explanations which would expose his secret.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My heart bleed for that poor boy—that dear boy, so of the age of mine own boy had I been so blessed that he live, and with his hair and eyes the same.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And so then, I suppose, said Mrs Musgrove, in a low voice, as if thinking aloud, so then he went away to the Laconia, and there he met with our poor boy.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)