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hamburger.

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.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈhæmˌbɜː.ɡə/Received-Pronunciation/ˈhæm.bə.ɡə/Received-Pronunciation/ˈhæmˌbɜɹ.ɡɚ/General-American/ˈhæm.bəɹ.ɡɚ/General-American
  1. 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.

    countable · uncountable
  2. Ingridents used in this type of sandwich: The patty used in such a sandwich.

    countable · uncountable
  3. Ingridents used in this type of sandwich: Ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers.

    uncountable
  4. An animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an accident or conflict.

    US · colloquial · countable · uncountable
    The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger.
    I'm going to make you into hamburger if you do that again.
  5. Ellipsis of hamburger button.

    abbreviation · alt-of · countable · ellipsis · uncountable
  6. Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a short rectangle.

    US · countable · informal · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Shortening of Hamburger sandwich, Hamburger steak, etc., the first element borrowed from German Hamburger (“native of Hamburg”), equivalent to Hamburg + -er.

verb/ˈhæmˌbɜː.ɡə/Received-Pronunciation/ˈhæm.bə.ɡə/Received-Pronunciation/ˈhæmˌbɜɹ.ɡɚ/General-American/ˈhæm.bəɹ.ɡɚ/General-American
  1. To badly injure or damage (a fleshy part of the body).

    informal · transitive
Where this word comes from

Shortening of Hamburger sandwich, Hamburger steak, etc., the first element borrowed from German Hamburger (“native of Hamburg”), equivalent to Hamburg + -er.

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