Definitions
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- noun A man who wears a
sandwich board .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person with advertising boards hanging from the shoulders
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Examples
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He asked me to ask you to ask somebody named Boylan, a billsticker, to give him a job as a sandwichman.
Ulysses 2003
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I'll hire a sandwichman to stop people in the street and tell it to them.
Here are Ladies James Stephens 1916
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Wandered without money over Europe, and was a sandwichman in London.
The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Boylan, a billsticker, to give him a job as a sandwichman.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Mr Hearst's journals, here it is clearly used in the same hope which inspires the sandwichman to carry on his front the classic legend:
American Sketches 1908 Charles Whibley 1894
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