Sanga is classic Australian colloquial shorthand for a sandwich — because Australians shorten everything, and they've been shortening this one for generations. Whether it's a vegemite sanga, a sausage sanga off the barbecue, or a fancy toasted sanga with avocado (the modern classic), the word is as everyday as it gets in Australian English. Kids, adults, tradies on a break — everyone knows a sanga. It's the unofficial unit of lunch in Australia.
He knocked off at noon, grabbed a sanga and a cold drink from the servo, and sat in the shade for twenty minutes.
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(Australia, colloquial) Sandwich.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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