Senator elect Dr. Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan was quoted on the election trail on his definition of Shawarma Law.

"If you get a shawarma and it's got lettuce in it, it's not shawarma, it's just a sandwich. Someone has lied to you."

As a corollary, a shawarma can be made into a sandwich by the addition of lettuce where it was not one before. A traditional shawarma does not have two defined bread buns which contain the rest of the sandwich, but use an flatbread as one defined piece surrounding it. Similarly, a hotdog bun is one defined piece of bread, surrounding the contents of the dog. Can we now use Dr. El-Sayed's definition of Shawarma Law to confirm that a hotdog is a sandwich and put to rest one of the greatest arguments of our generation?

What's your general philosophy around this? In theory, we learn all our fundamental vocabulary from context. But at the same time, it may be important to know the precise meaning. When do you look it up? When do you make an educated guess and keep going?