hamburger
nounEtymology
Shortening of Hamburger sandwich, Hamburger steak, etc., the first element borrowed from German Hamburger (“native of Hamburg”), equivalent to Hamburg + -er.
Definitions
A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a…
A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, usually also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.
Ingridents used in this type of sandwich
Ingridents used in this type of sandwich:
An animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an…
An animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an accident or conflict.
- The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger.
- I'm going to make you into hamburger if you do that again.
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Ellipsis of hamburger button.
Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a…
Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a short rectangle.
To badly injure or damage (a fleshy part of the body).
- The men played baseball on coral diamonds that tore their shoes and clothes and hamburgered their hands.
- And his tires triggered no Claymore mines or Bouncing Betties that might have hamburgered his vehicle with him in it.
- My tears are like gagged pieces of ice cutting up my eyeballs and hamburgering my face.
A person from Hamburg.
The neighborhood
Derived
$100 hamburger, burger, cheeseburger, cheesehamburger, Chinese hamburger, gardenburger, Gomez's Hamburger, hamburger button, hamburger icon, hamburgerless, hamburgerlike, hamburger menu, hamburgerologist, hamburgerology, hamburger roundabout, hamburger sauce, hamburger steak, hot hamburger sandwich, hundred-dollar hamburger, minihamburger, shamburger, soyburger, vegeburger, vegetarian hamburger
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA