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footlong

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




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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

But the creature the institute caught on video was a footlong juvenile.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025

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

On the West Coast, a similar range shift is happening with California market squid — footlong, white-and-purple mollusks.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 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 Harte, Bret