poor boy

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poor boy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  submarine sandwich \sub`ma*rine" sand"wich\, n.
     A large sandwich on an elongated roll, usually incompletely
     cut into two halves, filed with various cold cuts, meatballs,
     lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, olives, etc., and spiced
     variously, and often having oil or other dressing applied;
     called also hoagie, hero, hero sandwich, grinder,
     sub, submarine, poor boy, and Italian sandwich. A
     single such sandwich may consitute a substantial meal. Very
     large variants are sometimes prepared for social gatherings
     and cut into pieces for individual consumption.
     [PJC]

poor boy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  poor boy
      n 1: a 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 [syn: bomber,
           grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy,
           Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub,
           submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge,
           zep]