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🍔 A beef sandwich 🥩 Ground beef ☰ Menu button
hamburger

hamburger

5 4.4
An icon with three short horizontal lines that shows a hidden menu
  • noun
  • /ˈhæmˌbɜrɡər/
  • Texting
translation icon : icono de menú
  • When you see the hamburger button, it means that more options are hidden beneath it.
  • hamburger phone
  • abstract hamburgers

Like, if you need a hamburger icon with that many options, you got to start taking a look at stuff that's deep.

Examples

  • They accepted everything in the rest of the show—the pop art, the plastic hamburgers.

    Academic text (2014)

  • So what I'd like you to do is click on this icon, which we call the hamburger, and go down to panel options.

  • Like, if you need a hamburger icon with that many options, you got to start taking a look at stuff that's deep.

    Julian Dorey

  • People are sipping prosecco and chatting casually in an outdoor stand that feels entirely like a wine bar, a world away from the hamburgers and kettle corn.

    Blog text (24)

  • To open the menu, simply click on the hamburger icon located at the top left of the screen.

  • Many mobile applications use a hamburger icon to save space for navigation options.

Compounds

hamburger bun
2 1.0

A round soft bread roll cut in half to hold a burger and toppings

hamburger roll
1.0

A round soft bread roll for holding a cooked meat patty and toppings

hamburger steak
  • US
2.6

A cooked flat piece of ground beef served without a bun

Surface Forms

hamburger singular
hamburgers plural

Etymology

Hamburger for the three-line icon is a simple nickname: the three lines look like a small burger (top bun, patty, bottom bun). A helpful way to remember the hamburger icon is that it stands for a hidden 'menu', just like a burger hides its fillings inside buns.