Meanings
hoagie1
plural hoagies · alternative hoagy · alternative hoggie
- Mid AtlanticPennsylvaniaUSA sandwich made on a long Italian bread or Italian roll.
I'm going to Wawa to get a hoagie for lunch. Do any of yuhz want anything?
Synonyms: submarine sandwich, more there
hoagie2
plural hoagies
- Scotlandchiefly Central BeltA tortilla or chapati wrap filled with meat (usually doner kebab meat; seasoned lamb or mutton), chips and cheese.
Many of my early paychecks from waitressing at 15 were spent on hoagies; fat and sauce dripping down my chin as the beige delights in the wrap merged together to create a wrong-but-right finished product.
2018 August 24, Jessica Lindsay, “Central Scotland’s hoagie wrap is a thing to behold”, in Metro1 more example
Known as a "hoagie", the combination of chips, doner kebab meat and cheese - which contains 136g of fat and 1224 calories - has been identified as the unhealthiest fastfood meal served to pupils in a recent survey.
2005 August 20, “Forget turkey twizzlers... the 1200-calorie hoagie has arrived Takeaways used by school pupils to be told how to make their food more healthy”, in The Herald
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA sandwich made on a long Italian bread or Italian roll.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna 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
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
hoagie · noun
Uncertain. Often suggested to derive from hog, either in reference to Hog Island, a site of shipyards that employed Italian immigrants (who were supposedly called hoggies and who supposedly packed these sandwiches for lunch), or in reference to pork as an ingredient.
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hoagie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hoagie
“hoagie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hoagie. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hoagie,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hoagie.
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