Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sandwich consisting of a bun, a cooked beef patty, and often other ingredients such as cheese, onion slices, lettuce, or condiments. Often used in combination: a cheeseburger.
- n. A similar sandwich with a nonbeef filling. Often used in combination: a crab burger; a tofu burger.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- Short for hamburger. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But then, if the burger is as great as you say we will eat there, because of that alone.”
“They are usually sandwiched between layers of other pyrotechnical material, much as a burger is augmented with pickles, tomato, and relish.”
“Sciullo walked away with $400, three t-shirts and what he calls a burger hangover.”
“Heck, if a Helvetia burger is all that good, bring it on!”
“From a waterscape of the sinking Titanic to a Claes Oldenburg-inspired pumpkin burger, don't get too spooked by how much devotion it must take to become a Pumpkin Master.”
“Anytime you use the word burger, it doesn't sound very elegant -- but he wasn't an elegant person.”
“Though the drive-in is sometimes characterized as a burger restaurant, 34 percent of its revenue comes from drinks and ice cream sales, Sparks said.”
“Example: One wouldn't claim that Wendy's $2.99 fee for a burger is a 'tax.”
“And RUB's pitmaster Scott Smith and co-owner Andrew Fischel have snuck up on Meyer and Hanson with their burger, which is currently being served only on Monday nights.”
“Mrs. Obama had the lobster burger, which is apparently a specialty there.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘burger’.
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Sweet tooth fairy dominoes
As originally suggested on sweet tooth fairy domino:
Each person adds one word trying to create a single, potentially infinite sweet tooth fairy (please look it up if you are not familiar wit...banana, boat, house, arrest, warrant, peace, sign, post, box, clever, Hans, device and 119 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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UK - slang
fanny, nick, mufti, siphon, mug, smashing, butcher, stick up, knocker, porridge, tit, punter and 208 more...
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MANY A WORD!
This is just a list, right, that I'm gonna, like, fill with words, that, like, are every word that I can, like, think of with, ahhmm, my brain.
and, able, art, ass, algebra, amp, ankle, booze, bong, aura, bling, bright and 134 more...
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Meat Parts: the Cuts, the Innards, an...
T-bone - Sounds good!
Shoulder - Alright.
Liver - Fine.
Sweetbread - Okay.
Gizzard - Pushing it.
Brains - What?!wing, wedge bone sirloin, veal, umbles, tri-tip, tripe, triangle steak, tournedo, top sirloin, top loin, tongue, thigh and 147 more...
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Baby Got Back-Formations
"A new word created by removing an affix from an already existing word, as vacuum clean from vacuum cleaner, or by removing what is mistakenly thought to be an affix, as pea from the earlier Englis...
resurrect, enthuse, couth, donate, emote, greed, isolate, manipulate, orate, prequel, spectate, upholster and 94 more...
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Malachi_Constant's Words
triumverate, pandemic, parsnip, delineate, zamboni, parka, laser, swoop, malevolent, benevolent, fracas, tipsy and 372 more...
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NihonGoose's Words
colander, doily, nacre, mandible, carapace, glutinous, penumbral, skein, mollify, colloquial, sanguine, chagrin and 118 more...
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words from the German
kindergarten, sturm und drang, schadenfreude, zeppelin, blitzkreig, blitz, krieg, panzer, angst, nazi, zeitgeist, doppelganger and 107 more...
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The List Of Words That Rewrote The Hi...
Ah, yeah, this is a list of words that I think sound pretty funny... or dumb, either way, I like 'em so, yeah.
flabergasted, smash, wang, wordie, drum, rumplestiltskin, resistance, watt, hindu, universal serial bus, bearing, nematode and 138 more...
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My Stupid Day
Words that happened today. Outside of this site, I mean.
overcast, shower, storm, voicemail, email, music, contract, passive-aggressive, megabytes, filtered, mocha, antacid and 44 more...
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americana
burger, baseball, fat, jesus, fast food, capitalism, hungry, domination, imperialism, empire, ghetto, redneck and 6 more...
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TN5 Lesson 60
reception, soon, dressed, sweetheart, noticed, nightgown, evening gown, lobby, water fountain, left-hand, right-hand, receptionist and 22 more...
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TT1 Lesson 5
drive thru, box, get, burger, quick, serve, all the way, pickles, medium, fries, make it, menu and 13 more...
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Sandwich words
hoagie, hero, grinder, po boy, torpedo, reuben sandwich, open-faced, french dip sandwich, kaiser roll, blt, bagel, delicatessen and 41 more...
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my hero
types of sandwich
sandwich, sammich, sarnie, butty, hero, hoagie, submarine, wrap, panini, melt, burger, po' boy and 15 more...
Tweets
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