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beefburger

beefburger

1 1.0
A sandwich with a fried or grilled beef patty in a bun
  • noun
  • /ˈbifˌbɜrɡər/
  • UK
translation icon : hamburguesa
  • For lunch, I made a homemade beefburger topped with melted cheese and pickles.

Examples

  • Make some beefburgers.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Beefburgers?

    Fiction book (1993)
  • We've dined on my friend's beans on toast and frozen beefburgers.

  • He would sit with Henry while he consumed his fish fingers or beefburgers or whatever horror he had chosen to eat, listening to all that Henry had been up to during the week, and drinking, meanwhile, a very long and strong gin and tonic.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • I ordered a juicy beefburger with lettuce and tomato at the restaurant.

  • The food truck served delicious beefburgers that were grilled to perfection.

Synonyms

burger
vsbeefburger
406 1.0

A cooked beef patty in a bun with toppings

specifies frying or grilling instead of general cooked preparation
hamburger
vsbeefburger
119 1.0

A sandwich that has a cooked beef patty in a bun with toppings

specifies frying or grilling as the cooking method
cheeseburger
vsbeefburger
114 1.0

A hamburger with melted cheese in a bun

is the general sandwich that does not always have cheese
bacon burger
vsbeefburger
2 1.0

A burger served with bacon

does not require bacon as a standard topping
Mc-burger
vsbeefburger
1.9

A hamburger sold at McDonald's fast food restaurants

is the generic grilled or fried minced beef sandwich not tied to one chain

Surface Forms

beefburger singular
beefburgers plural

Morphology

beefburger = beef + burger (transparent) = beef + burger

A straightforward compound of 'beef' + 'burger': the meaning is directly a burger made from beef.

Etymology

The word beefburger is a simple combination of beef ('meat from cows') and burger (short for 'hamburger', the meat patty in a bun). So a beefburger is exactly a sandwich made with a fried or grilled beef patty in a split bun.