Informal British adjective describing bread that has been sliced extremely thick — the kind of chunky slab that resembles a doorstep more than a conventional slice.
Informal British adjective describing bread that has been sliced extremely thick — the kind of chunky slab that resembles a doorstep more than a conventional slice. Often used affectionately, particularly when talking about homemade loaves, old-fashioned sandwiches, or bakery bread cut to generous proportions. The implication is bulk and heartiness rather than elegant thin-cut sandwich bread.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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He piled the ham onto a gloriously doorsteppy slice and declared it the only proper way to make a sandwich.
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(UK, informal) Of bread: sliced very thick.
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