Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A hamburger topped with melted cheese.
Wiktionary
- n. A hamburger sandwich containing cheese (usually one or more slices of processed cheese).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a hamburger with melted cheese on it.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a hamburger with melted cheese on it
Etymologies
- Blend of cheese and hamburger (1928) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A kosher cheeseburger is a mythical beast, almost perfectly oxymoronic.”
“A cheeseburger is manifesting my appetite even as we speak.”
“Basically, I doubt the position (that eating cheeseburger after cheeseburger after cheeseburger is rational) is advanced sincerely, but instead as some sort of logic game.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism
“I mean the cheeseburger is one thing, but on everything??”
“A cheeseburger is the epitome of the code's violation.”
“By comparison, eating a cheeseburger is much, much cheaper.”
When a Pack of Cigarettes Costs $222 - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
“I was not granted tenure this year, and decided that one of the things I needed to do was make certain the folks sitting across the desk at interviews didn't think I was one cheeseburger from a heart attack.”
“Ghouls and H-Bomb A-Bomb enthusiasts can own the 11-page book that contains the famous line "My God, what have we done?" and the less-known line, "Damn, that cheeseburger is rebounding on me something fierce -- hoo-ee!”
“If I eat a cheeseburger and exercise in the same day, it’s not unusual to say that the cheeseburger is bad for my health and the exercise good.”
Matthew Yglesias » The Gingrich Doctrine and the 21st Century
“I don’t want food choices restricted, because even a greasy, heart-attack inducing triple bacon cheeseburger is a GOOD thing in moderation (well, more like a rare treat.)”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cheeseburger’.
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Fruits of Linguistic Invention
bananosecond, fruitylicious, appled, kiwiclock, boomorange, damsonic, pearforate, graspberry, squince, datelier, caroberate, plumpire and 143 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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Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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cheese
everything cheese,expressions like
stiff cheddar,turophile's heaven
a work in progresscheddar, cheddared, cheddaring, cheedam, cheese straw, cheesed off, cheesed, cheesie, cheeseparing, cheese tree, cheesewood, cheesier and 352 more...
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Vendance Is Mine
Vot? Stuff dispensed from vending machines. Don't ask vhy.
p.s. Generic, no brand names please.bubblegum, soft drinks, cigarettes, coffee, muesli bars, phone cards, stale peanuts, chicken salad san..., cheeseburger, peanut butter coo..., an original work ..., amaretto-flavored... and 62 more...
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Anything to do with cats
if you're a cat freak like i am - then this is the list for you
fur ball, i laughed, i cried, it was better tha..., T.S. Eliot, Memory, Andrew Lloyd Webber, feline, mew, Persian, purr, can opener and 19 more...
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Food
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spaghetti, yogurt, muesli, rarebit, wheat, cream, cheese, pumpkin, custard, couscous, oats, sausage and 237 more...
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English loanwords in Italian, with PR...
See discussion on bruschetta. Unlike chelster, I believe the "correct" pronunciation remains the English one.
hamburger, cheeseburger, ketchup, pancake, toast, mountain bike, tour operator, water, computer, hot dog, hiking
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