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to grill burger

to grill burger

1 1.9
Cook a burger patty over hot direct heat on metal bars
  • phrasal verb
  • /ɡrɪl ˈbɜrɡər/
translation icon : asar hamburguesas
  • To prepare a delicious dinner, we decided to grill burgers on the patio last night.

Examples

  • Make sure to grill burgers over high heat for about 4 minutes on each side for the best flavor.

  • Has grilling burgers fried your brain, or do you grill burgers all day because you have no brain?

    Aquamarine (2006)

  • For a quick meal, you can grill burgers and serve them with fresh toppings and fries.

Synonyms

to grill
vsto grill burger
140 1.0

To cook food over direct heat on metal bars

is limited to cooking a ground meat disk over direct heat
to barbecue
vsto grill burger
50 1.3

To cook food outdoors on a grill or over an open fire

is specific to cooking a single ground meat disk over direct heat
to broil
vsto grill burger
  • US
17 2.8

To cook food with strong heat from above so the top becomes brown or crispy

is for cooking a ground meat disk over direct heat rather than from above
to flip burger
vsto grill burger
  • Informal
9 2.3

To cook hamburgers by turning them over on a grill

is the whole cooking of a ground meat disk not only the turning action

How Grilled

charbroil
  • US
1 5.6
to grill burger
1 1.9

Surface Forms

grill burger infinitive
grilled burger past
grilled burger past participle
grilling burger present participle
grills burger third person singular

Morphology

grill + burger

The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'grill' (to cook over direct heat) applied to 'burger' (a hamburger), so a learner who knows both words can infer it means to cook a burger on a grill. This follows a common verb + object pattern found across languages and is therefore immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner despite the minor omission of an article in the example.

Etymology

Grill burger comes from the simple picture of putting a burger patty on the metal bars of a grill over hot fire, where it sizzles and gets brown lines. So grill burger means 'to cook a hamburger patty over direct heat on a grill'.