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burger

burger

406 1.0
A cooked beef patty in a bun with toppings
  • noun
  • /ˈbɜrɡər/
translation icon : hamburguesa
  • I ordered a cheeseburger stacked high with toppings and fries on the side, but the real star was the burger.
  • cooked burgers
  • pork burgers
  • light burgers

Hey, if you don't like burgers, we got beef.

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Examples

  • If you like burgers, get in my van kids.

  • I've got a chicken burger, some rice and some greens.

  • - I'll just grab a burger quick, okay?

  • I also haven't had a good burger, as crazy as that is.

  • If not for me, for the burgers, I love you.

  • Once a year there was a burger joint in Traverse City.

  • Man, those burgers smell good!

  • I want to cook one of those monster burgers for him.

  • Pickles come on a burger.

  • To this day, the best burger I've ever eaten.

Synonyms

sandwich
vsburger
800 1.0

Two slices of bread with food like meat or cheese between them for a meal

uses a split bun to hold a cooked meat patty rather than sliced bread
hamburger
vsburger
119 1.0

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

uses minced beef patty rather than ground beef wording
beefburger
vsburger
  • UK
1 1.0

A sandwich with a fried or grilled beef patty in a bun

is the cooked patty in a bun without naming frying or grilling

Compounds

A sandwich with a cooked patty made from vegetables or plant ingredients instead of meat

2 1.0

A burger served with bacon

8.4

A burger made from meat grown in a lab instead of from animals

8.5

A very large burger often talked about in a playful way

1.9

A hamburger sold at McDonald's fast food restaurants

How Big

mahoosive burger
  • Slang
8.5
burger
406 1.0
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8 3.0

Surface Forms

burger singular
burgers plural

Etymology

The word burger comes from Hamburger, which meant 'from Hamburg', a city in Germany. At first it named a beef patty called a 'Hamburg steak', and later people shortened Hamburger to burger for the meat sandwich, which is why burger means a cooked meat patty in a bun today.