beefburger
- noun
- /ˈbifˌbɜrɡər/
- UK
- For lunch, I made a homemade beefburger topped with melted cheese and pickles.
Examples
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Make some beefburgers.
Fiction book (1990) -
Beefburgers?
Fiction book (1993) -
We've dined on my friend's beans on toast and frozen beefburgers.
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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.
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The food truck served delicious beefburgers that were grilled to perfection.
Synonyms
A cooked beef patty in a bun with toppings
A sandwich that has a cooked beef patty in a bun with toppings
A hamburger with melted cheese in a bun
A burger served with bacon
A hamburger sold at McDonald's fast food restaurants
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.