sanger

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/ˈsæŋə/

noun

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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The scientist used the Sanger sequencing method for DNA analysis.
[…]I popped the last of the strawberry sangers into my mouth, craned my neck over the bureaucrat′s gelati-hued shoulder and feasted my eyes.
[…]the Boer marksmen leaned over their sangers and fired on the helmeted heads below them.

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[…]I popped the last of the strawberry sangers into my mouth, craned my neck over the bureaucrat′s gelati-hued shoulder and feasted my eyes.
1996, Shane Maloney, The Brush-Off, published 2006, page 140
The enemy had a line of sangers along the far edge of nullah right across the valley, with sangers at intervals up the steep mountains on either side into the snows, and occupied, as far as we could guess, by some 2,000 men.
1895, United States Cavalry Association, Journal of the United States Cavalry Association, volume 8, page 223
At 4.30 a.m., under cover of a mist in the donga, the Boers made a very severe attack on the north and west of my position, the brunt of the attack fell on two sangers held by the Durham Company of Artillery; the Boers broke through the wire and got to within 20 yards of those sangers, but they both gallantly held their own and I, with the aid of the Maxim, was able to repulse the attack.
1902, House of Commons, Sessional Papers, volume 69, Great Britain, page 64
[…]the Boer marksmen leaned over their sangers and fired on the helmeted heads below them.
1976, Byron Farwell, The Great Boer War, page 93
[…]Allison did most of the talking telling Sara of her victory, of meeting Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova—who won the Family Circle Open—of rubbing the elbows with the Australian elite, and making sangers (sandwiches) for broken families in Brisbane.
2005, R. T. Stone, The Journals: Into the Gulf, Book 2, page 459

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Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced sangwich) + -er (colloquialising suffix). Australian from 1960s.