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Poor boy   /pur bɔɪ/   Listen
Poor boy

noun
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.  Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep.






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"Poor boy" Quotes from Famous Books



... poor boy cannot write his own name, much less yours. Besides, it would be a matter of high treason to forge your signature, so again I thank God you are here. Indeed, your Highness, I am in great ...
— The Sword Maker • Robert Barr

... what Gombauld had said about Denis. It happened to be so completely untrue. Gombauld might have some slight ground for his reproaches. But Denis—no, she had never flirted with Denis. Poor boy! He was very sweet. She became ...
— Crome Yellow • Aldous Huxley

... in the same businesslike voice, "I have given it away. There is a very poor boy, a beggar, you know, so I ...
— Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

... first fastens a line round his waist and to a belaying pin; and then he discovers a senseless form, Holbrooke, the pilot, a friend of his own, who, fast dying with the cold and drenching freezing spray, was muttering, 'The poor boy! the poor boy!' ...
— Heroes of the Goodwin Sands • Thomas Stanley Treanor

... Souvenir. Containing Oliver Optic's Popular Story, Going West; or, The Perils of a Poor Boy; Stories of the Sea, Tales of Wonder, Records of Travel, &c. Edited by Oliver Optic. With numerous full-page and letter-press Engravings. Covers printed in Colors. ...
— The Yacht Club - or The Young Boat-Builder • Oliver Optic


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