to flip burger
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2.3
- phrasal verb
- Informal
:
dar la vuelta a la hamburguesa
- The new employee was quickly trained to flip burgers and serve customers efficiently.
- flipping burgers on a grill
- job flipping burgers
- flipping burgers at McDonald
Congress right now is flipping back and forth more than my father-in-law flips burgers on the BBQ.
- Congress right now is flipping back and forth more than my father-in-law flips burgers on the BBQ.
- And I was like, when my dad was traumatizing me, like you're going to work at McDonald's flipping burgers, like every day he would see me McDonald's.
Examples
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On the weekends, I enjoy flipping burgers for my friends at the backyard barbecue.
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Morrissette decided to cast an "everyman" as Macbeth—a guy who flips burgers for a living while dreaming up grand schemes.
Fiction book (2002) -
You really should come if you want to see me flip burgers, some of which might actually land on the grill.
Fiction book (1999) -
When I was your age, I flipped burgers all summer just to be able to buy an eight track.
Fiction book (1999) -
I would end up flipping burgers.
Blog text (13) -
They want me to flip burgers.
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Patrick is at the barbecue grill, flipping burgers.
Fiction book (1999) -
Dad hauled the barbecue out of the basement and he and Teddy spent the day flipping burgers.
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Lester, wearing a Mr. Smiley's uniform, is happily flipping burgers on a grill.
Fiction book (1999) -
Majors reading this: hang tough—not all of us are flipping burgers and waxing cars.
Blog text (21)
Synonyms
41
2.5
Turn something so the side that was up is now down
1
1.9
Cook a burger patty over hot direct heat on metal bars
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'flip' (turn quickly) applied to 'burger' (a sandwich) yields the literal action of turning a burger while cooking. This is a common, concrete verb+object construction (and even the occupational use 'to flip burgers' is transparently derived from that action), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Flip burger comes from the kitchen image of someone quickly turning a burger on a hot grill, the flip of the meat with a spatula. So, it means 'to cook hamburgers by turning them', often as a casual or fast-food 'job'.