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sub Definition

• (n) 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
• (n) a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes
• (v) be a substitute; "The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague"; "The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet"

sub Synonyms

• bomber
• Cuban sandwich
• fill in
• grinder
• hero
• hero sandwich
• hoagie
• hoagy
• Italian sandwich
• pigboat
• poor boy
• stand in
• sub
• submarine
• submarine sandwich
• substitute
• torpedo
• U-boat
• wedge
• zep