dagwood sandwich

dagwood sandwich

A very tall, multi-tiered sandwich with many fillings. In Chic Young's comic strip Blondie, the character Dagwood often makes such sandwiches. Just once I want to make myself a real dagwood sandwich—with eight layers of bread and cheese and salami and lettuce and tomatoes and pickles.
See also: dagwood, sandwich
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

dagwood (sandwich)

(ˈdægwʊd...)
n. a tall sandwich with many layers of food. (From the comic strip character Dagwood by Chick Young.) I really like to make an old-fashioned dagwood sandwich every now and then.
See also: dagwood, sandwich
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • dagwood
  • po' boy
  • poor boy
  • camp it up
  • gloomy Gus
  • Colonel Blimp
  • with everything on it
  • knuckle sandwich
  • milktoast
  • milquetoast
References in periodicals archive
When cartoonists draw, they should strive to create enduring images, says Schulz, who cites the Dagwood sandwich and Snoopy on his doghouse as examples.
Podleckis describes this tissue blot test as "sort of a biochemical Dagwood sandwich made up of several layers."