snack food

/snæk fud/

Definitions of snack food

1. noun

   food for light meals or for eating between meals
   types:

   sandwich

   two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them

   potato peel, potato peelings, potato skin

   crisp fried potato peeling

   Saratoga chip, chip, crisp, potato chip

   a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

   corn chip

   thin piece of cornmeal dough fried

   butty

   a sandwich

   ham sandwich

   a sandwich made with a filling of sliced ham

   chicken sandwich

   a sandwich made with chicken and various other fillings, such as tomato and lettuce

   club sandwich, three-decker, triple-decker

   made with three slices of usually toasted bread

   open sandwich, open-face sandwich

   sandwich without a covering slice of bread

   beefburger, burger, hamburger

   a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients

   tunaburger

   a sandwich that resembles a hamburger but made with tuna instead of beef

   hot dog, hotdog, red hot

   a frankfurter served hot on a bun

   Sloppy Joe

   ground beef (not a patty) cooked in a spicy sauce and served on a bun

   Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep

   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

   gyro

   a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread

   BLT, bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich

   sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce

   Reuben

   a hot sandwich with corned beef and Swiss cheese and sauerkraut on rye bread

   western, western sandwich

   a sandwich made from a western omelet

   wrap

   a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla

   tortilla chip

   a small piece of tortilla

   type of:

   dish

   a particular item of prepared food