sanger

plural sangers

1. AustraliacolloquialinformalA sandwich.First known use 1960s.

   Eat Rock oysters, rock lobsters, yabbies and prawns; also Turkish bread ‘sangers’ and Tim Tam shooters

   2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 94

   3 more examples

   […]I popped the last of the strawberry sangers into my mouth, craned my neck over the bureaucrat′s gelati-hued shoulder and feasted my eyes.

   1996, Shane Maloney, The Brush-Off, published 2006, page 140

   […]Allison did most of the talking telling Sara of her victory, of meeting Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova—who won the Family Circle Open—of rubbing the elbows with the Australian elite, and making sangers (sandwiches) for broken families in Brisbane.

   2005, R. T. Stone, The Journals: Into the Gulf, Book 2, page 459

   Winning pub-grub at this enduring pub boozer: steak sangers, veggie lasagne, lamb-shank pie, king-prawn salad and blueberry pancakes.

   2009, Central Australia: Adelaide to Darwin, page 59

   Synonyms: sambo, sammie, sammo, sango, sarnie

plural sangers

1. alternativeAlternative form of sangar.

   […]the Boer marksmen leaned over their sangers and fired on the helmeted heads below them.

   1976, Byron Farwell, The Great Boer War, page 93

   2 more examples

   The enemy had a line of sangers along the far edge of nullah right across the valley, with sangers at intervals up the steep mountains on either side into the snows, and occupied, as far as we could guess, by some 2,000 men.

   1895, United States Cavalry Association, Journal of the United States Cavalry Association, volume 8, page 223

   At 4.30 a.m., under cover of a mist in the donga, the Boers made a very severe attack on the north and west of my position, the brunt of the attack fell on two sangers held by the Durham Company of Artillery; the Boers broke through the wire and got to within 20 yards of those sangers, but they both gallantly held their own and I, with the aid of the Maxim, was able to repulse the attack.

   1902, House of Commons, Sessional Papers, volume 69, Great Britain, page 64

alternative Sanker

1. A surname originating as an occupation.

   Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger is alleging that the online encyclopedia has a left-leaning bias and “a lot of problems,” and recently released a nine-point plan to fix it.

   2025 October 3, Ray Bogan, “Wikipedia co-founder says site has liberal bias — here’s his plan to fix that”, in Straight Arrow News, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2025

2. A place in the United States:
   1. A city in Fresno County, California.
   2. A ghost town in Oliver County, North Dakota.
   3. A city in Denton County, Texas.
   4. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.
3. A locality in the Federation council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.