hamburger
- noun
- /ˈhæmˌbɜrɡər/
- Sometimes he believes he can smell their dinner: chicken, hamburger, barbecue ribs.
- undercooked hamburger
I got some some ground hamburger meat.
- I got some some ground hamburger meat.
- I want to go through the ingredient list here, but basic hamburger is made of this ground beef.
Examples
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And we'll make it out of hamburger meat as one does.
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At the diner, the special was a classic hamburger with fries on the side.
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My wife bought better hamburger last year.
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I know a hamburger stand...
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I want to go through the ingredient list here, but basic hamburger is made of this ground beef.
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So, now we are serving some hamburger with french fries for the captain.
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A year later, anybody could buy a bad hamburger anytime at an Atlanta lunch counter.
Fiction book (1990) -
Their courtship lasted three months, consisting of hamburger lunches and weekend movie dates.
Fiction book (1993) -
Robin is at the grill with hamburgers as Alyssa prepares the table for dinner.
Fiction book (2001) -
We enjoyed delicious hamburgers topped with lettuce and tomato at the backyard barbecue.
Synonyms
Finely chopped meat from a cow used for cooking
Compounds
How Natural
- Slang
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hamburger comes from the city Hamburg and the ending -er, which meant 'from' or 'person of'. Because a well-known minced beef dish came from Hamburg, hamburger came to mean the ground beef used for those patties.