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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



... echoed Mr. Strong. "Is it possible? Poor boy! Wake up, Thomas!" and he caught Tom by the shoulder and shook him and finally set ...
— The Rover Boys at School • Arthur M. Winfield

... Montsou Mining Company, was born in the Ardennes. In his early life he had undergone the hardships of a poor boy thrown as an orphan on the Paris streets. After having followed the courses of the Ecole des Mines, at the age of twenty-four he became engineer to the Sainte-Barbe mine, and three years later he became divisional engineer in the Pas-de-Calais, ...
— A Zola Dictionary • J. G. Patterson

... draw quickly together, and she bent upon him a look in which he read pity, surprise and a slight tinge of amusement. "Oh, you poor boy, is it possible that you imagine all ...
— The Wheel of Life • Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

... in little more than an hour, but the poor boy was dead!—sitting crouched in the same position in which I had seen him. He must have died of cold and starvation; he was ...
— Eight Years' Wandering in Ceylon • Samuel White Baker

... he should run away yesterday, sir; but I had no notion the poor boy would or could, or I'd never have ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various


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