Poor-boy
noun
1.
Southern U.S. (chiefly Gulf States) . a hero sandwich.
noun phrase
A very large sandwich; Dagwood, hero sandwich
[1921+; coined and invented by Clovis and Benjamin Martin, who opened a New Orleans restaurant in 1921]
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