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mahoosive burger

mahoosive burger

8.5
A very large burger often talked about in a playful way
  • noun
  • Slang
translation icon : hamburguesa gigante
  • He couldn't finish the mahoosive burger he ordered for lunch.

Examples

  • The mahoosive burger at the fair comes with three beef patties and extra cheese.

  • Their special this week is a mahoosive burger served with a mountain of fries.

  • I just ordered a mahoosive burger!

  • The restaurant serves mahoosive burgers on Wednesdays.

  • The mahoosive burger at the restaurant was big enough to feed two people.

  • He laughed when his friend attempted to finish the giant mahoosive burger in one sitting.

  • During our road trip, we stopped at a diner famous for its mahoosive burger topped with bacon and guacamole.

How Big

mahoosive burger
  • Slang
8.5
burger
406 1.0
slider
8 3.0

Surface Forms

mahoosive burger singular
mahoosive burgers plural

Morphology

mahoosive + burger

The noun 'burger' is fully transparent, while 'mahoosive' is a nonstandard, colloquial spelling/pronunciation likely deriving from 'massive' (i.e., 'very large'). The overall adjective+noun composition points to 'an extremely large burger', but because 'mahoosive' is informal and may be unfamiliar or unlisted to a B1 learner, the meaning is only partially predictable without prior exposure.

Etymology

Mahoosive burger uses a playful form of the word mahoosive, a joking way to say 'very big', with burger to make a strong picture of a huge sandwich. That's why it means 'an extremely large burger'.