hamburger
Meanings
Plural: hamburgers
Noun
- a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients
- beef that has been ground
- 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.
- The patty used in such a sandwich.
- Ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers.
- An animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an accident or conflict.
- Ellipsis of hamburger button.
- Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a short rectangle.
Verb
- To badly injure or damage.
Origin / Etymology
Shortening of Hamburger sandwich, Hamburger steak, etc.; or, less likely, borrowed from German Hamburger (“native of Hamburg”), equivalent to Hamburg + -er.
Synonyms
beefburger, burger, ground beef, hamburger patty, liberty sandwich
Scrabble Score: 17
hamburger is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordhamburger is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hamburger is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 20
hamburger is a valid Words With Friends word