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ham sandwich (usually countable, plural ham sandwiches)

1. (countable, rarely uncountable) A sandwich made with ham.
   • 1919, H. von Hug-Hellmuth, translated by James J[ackson] Putnam and Mabel Stevens, A Study of the Mental Life of the Child (Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series; 29), Washington, D.C.: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company, page 143:

     Muttsen looked at Eva and Eva looked at Muttsen—and Eva did not cry out, Eva slept gently—Eva ate a little sausage—a piece of ham sandwich, for her supper—Eva ate it all up; […]

   • 1994, David Alexander, Bandit, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 41:

     “Hell, that’s practically the Stone Age,” Applegate commented with a laugh, then crammed the last piece of ham sandwich into his mouth and chewed contemplatively before adding, “I can promise you what we have in store will knock your socks off.”

   • 2015, Spencer Quinn [pseudonym; Peter Abrahams], Woof (a Bowser and Birdie novel), New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Inc., published 2016, →ISBN, page 179:

     Maybelline tore off another piece of ham sandwich and fed it to me.

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2. (countable, US, figurative) Something utterly commonplace, of modest value.
   • 1900, Charles A. Conant, “The Financial Future of the United States”, in The Bankers magazine, volume 61, page 603:

     but did you ever hear of a young man, who becomes a millionaire in the approved style, starting life on a farm, studying by the light of a tallow dip, and coming to the city with forty-five cents and a ham sandwich

   • 1998 September 15, Tony Kornheiser, “Up for the Game, Down for the Count”, in Washington Post:

     But regardless of how enamored you may be of Green's manner and his potential, it has to come as a shock to you that he's the starter. A month ago you could have had him for a ham sandwich

   • 2009 June, Ezra Dyer, “The Car That Should Save GM”, in Esquire, volume 151, number 6, page 28:

     It's sports-car fast, has a big leather-trimmed interior, and costs as much as a ham sandwich.

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3. (countable, slang, vulgar) A vulva.

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Further reading

• ham sandwich on Wikipedia.Wikipedia