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burger
1[bur-ger]
noun
a hamburger.
a food patty, or patty on a bun, containing ingredients other than beef.
veggie or turkey burgers.
Burger
2[bur-ger]
noun
Warren Earl, 1907–1995, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1969–86.
-burger
3a combining form extracted from hamburger, occurring in compounds the initial element of which denotes a special garnish for a hamburger or a substitute ingredient for the meat patty.
baconburger; cheeseburger; fishburger.
burger
1/ ˈɜːɡə /
noun
informal
short for hamburger
( in combination )
a cheeseburger
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2/ ˈɡə /
noun
Gottfried August (ˈɡɔtfriːt ˈauɡʊst). 1747–94, German lyric poet, noted particularly for his ballad Lenore (1773)
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Example Sentences
Tomatoes — real ones, the kind that bruise if you breathe on them too hard — return, and we remember they’re not just filler for BLTs or wedges to shove beside a burger.
You can get a smashburger, I think a vegan burger, and something else, and they’ve got a really nice selection of craft beers.
He robbed banks in the Pacific Northwest until federal agents caught him outside a burger joint in Washington state.
A way to say: OK, I can still have a burger, pizza, a pint of ice cream.
The deal also means that British farms will be able to sell sausages and burgers to the EU for the first time in five years.
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When To Use
The combining form -burger is used like a suffix indicating a kind of hamburger or other patty in a sandwich bun.The form -burger comes from the end of the word hamburger, meaning "a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground beef in a roll or bun." The word hamburger itself comes from a shortening of a dish named Hamburger steak, from the German city of Hamburg.
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