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Other less likely explanations involve " Hogan " ( a nickname for Irish workers at the Hog Island shipyard ), a reference to the pork or " hog " meat used in hoagies, " honky sandwich " ( using a racial slur for white people seen eating them ) or " hooky sandwich " ( derived from " hookie " for truant kids seen eating them ).

Shortly after World War II, there were numerous varieties of the term in use throughout Philadelphia.

By the 1940s, the spellings " hoagie " and, to a lesser extent, " hoagy " had come to dominate lesser user variations like " hoogie " and " hoggie ".

By 1955, restaurants throughout the area were using the term " hoagie ", with many selling hoagies and subs or hoagies and pizza.

Listings in Pittsburgh show hoagies arriving in 1961 and becoming widespread in that city by 1966.