half-pounder

noun

Etymology

From half + pound + -er.

  1. derived from *(s)pend-
  2. derived from pondō
  3. inherited from *pundą
  4. inherited from *pund
  5. inherited from pund
  6. inherited from pound
  7. formed as half-pounder — “half + pound + -er

Definitions

  1. A beef hamburger sandwich whose patty weighed approximately half a pound prior to being…

    A beef hamburger sandwich whose patty weighed approximately half a pound prior to being cooked.

  2. A burger sandwich with a patty of such an uncooked weight, of an alternative to beef.

  3. A burger patty of such an uncooked weight.

  4. + 4 more definitions
    1. A food item similar to a patty of such an uncooked weight, such as a meatball.

    2. A sandwich weighing approximately half a pound.

    3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see half, pounder: Anything weighing half a pound.

    4. Having a weight of a 1/2 of a pound.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for half-pounder. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA