hot-dog bun

plural hot-dog buns

1. alternativeAlternative form of hot dog bun.

   The rain is coming down harder, making the hot-dog buns soggy.

   1991, Aethlon, page 130

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   The butter rolls, for example, can be traced to the Italian housewives on Finney Lane, who first showed the Arnolds how to “tie” them, after the manner of the old country, and the hot-dog buns, of course, originated with Arnold’s memorable sprint to the Ringling Brothers circus.

   1957, The New Yorker, page 70

   When he turned and found Jessie was laughing, too, he stopped filling the hot-dog buns and frowned at them all.

   1991, Andrea Edwards, Starting Over, Silhouette Desire, →ISBN, page 113

   Generously fill each hot-dog bun with lobster salad and serve.

   2000, Food & Wine

   We sit on a blue metal bench, shaded from the sun, watching seagulls swoop and strut for control of a hot-dog bun in right field, and we talk about our favorite players, Kaline, Cash, Horton, Brinkman, Lolich.

   2001, The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark, Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN