Definitions

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  • noun An easily made sandwich of ground meat and commercially made, seasoned tomato sauce.

Etymologies

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Genericized trademark, presumably a blend of man and sandwich.

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Examples

  • One spot, now running, shows a girl dressed up as a "Manwich" in a school play trying to fit in with the neighbors from "Farmer John's Vegetable Patch."

    Brandweek - News and Features 2009

  • One spot, now running, shows a girl dressed up as a "Manwich" in a school play trying to fit in with the neighbors from "Farmer John's Vegetable Patch."

    Brandweek - News and Features 2009

  • The suffix "-wich" (mostly meaning "sandwichlike in shape") gets a workout in trade names (Manwich, Chipwich) or to indicate a filling (eggwich, hamwich).

    Week in Words Erin McKean 2011

  • Inc. said it sees a sales spike of about 2% to 5% in the first two weeks of the month for brands like Banquet frozen meals, Snack Pack pudding, Manwich sloppy joe sauce and Hunt's ketchup.

    Shoppers Still Stick To Payday Purchases 2010

  • He may have to resort to home-made fifis and saucing off in your Manwich mixes!

    JERRY BRUCKHEIMER’S LAWS OF SCIENCE 2008

  • Really amusing take on that old commercial about how “there is no sandwich like Manwich.”

    Scarlet Fry’s Horrorama (1990) 2010

  • I don't care if you support Hillary, or Obama .... just don't listen to what people who raffle off cans of Manwich think!

    Schneider: Obama's blue-collar problem persists 2008

  • It was the variation on the Duchess Sandwich, the Duchess Manwich, first seen at Her Grace, Eva Bellambi's rezday party.

    Happy Rez Day Mr. Drinkwater -- (AND It's not a DUEL) ZenMondo Wormser 2007

  • It was the variation on the Duchess Sandwich, the Duchess Manwich, first seen at Her Grace, Eva Bellambi's rezday party.

    Archive 2007-06-01 ZenMondo Wormser 2007

  • Even as Rodkin and the CEOs of Bumble Bee, Dole and Butterball testified, ConAgra's Slim Jim meat and cheese sticks, Pemmican beef jerky, Hunt's spaghetti sauce with meat flavor, Banquet Mac & Cheese and Manwich with beef refrigerated tubs were joining the Do Not Eat Hallmark/Westland recalled meat list.

    Meat Scandal Reaches the Hill 2008

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