burger
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of burger
9 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (informal)A hamburger.
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noun
- (informal)A hamburger.
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A similar sandwich or patty.
“She was planning to have a burger for dinner.”
- (Australia, India, Ireland, New-Zealand, South-Africa, UK)Any sandwich that uses two bread rolls or buns (in North America it only refers to a sandwich with two buns or bread rolls and a meat patty).
- (Pakistan, derogatory, slang, usually)A stereotypical well-off Pakistani aspiring to a westernized lifestyle.
- (Internet, derogatory)An American.
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of burgher.
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of Burgher (“member of a Sri Lankan people”).
- A white wine grape of French origin.
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Clipping of hamburger, rebracketing it as ham + burger. First use appears c. 1937. Sense 5 is likely a back-formation from Burgerland.
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