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footlong

[foot-lawng, -long] / ˈfʊtˌlɔŋ, -ˌlɒŋ /




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One VIC client told me she was always happy to get her hands on a Subway coupon for a footlong sandwich, which she cut into pieces to make three meals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

He whipped back around, wound up, and threw his footlong Subway sub at the agent, hitting him square in the chest.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2025

Back in 2022, Subway offered a similar limited run of the footlong cookie, which sold out in less than two hours.

From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2023

The next day, sitting outside the Wasserman Football Center, McDonald glances at the footlong scar on his left leg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2023

A narrow, flattened, expressionless head was followed by a footlong strip of yellow-barred scales; then there was a pause, and the head turned, in a beautifully symmetrical half-circle, towards the whistler.

From Openings in the Old Trail by Bret Harte


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