sandwich
n.n. a type of food made by putting something between two slices of bread. It is common in many countries and often eaten as a quick meal.
n. a food item consisting of a filling placed between two slices of bread.
She ate a sandwich for lunch.
The student bought a turkey and cheese sandwich from the cafeteria before class.
The gourmet restaurant offered a deconstructed sandwich experience, serving the ingredients separately with a detailed explanation of the chef's creative process.
First recorded 1762, and named — like so much in English — after a man who couldn't be bothered to get up. John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, was an inveterate gambler; rather than abandon the table for a proper meal, he had cold meat brought between bread, and the habit outlasted him.
The Earl's own title is toponymic, from Sandwich in Kent — one of the Cinque Ports — via Old English Sandwicæ, "sandy harbour". Cook repaid the patronage in 1778 by naming the Hawaiian Islands the Sandwich Islands; the archipelago quietly dropped the name the moment they got the chance.