hamburger

Meaning

Noun

• A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, sometimes 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.

Related

Similar words

• liberty sandwich
• beefburger
• hamburger [[patty]]

Narrower meaning words

• slider
• quarter-pounder
• cheeseburger

Broader meaning words

• burger

Origin

• Shortening of Hamburger sandwich, Hamburger steak, etc.; or, less likely, borrowed from German Hamburger, equivalent to Hamburg + -er.