burger

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A flat round cake of minced meat served in a bun, often with other fillings.

   We ordered burgers and fries at the diner.

Simplified etymology

Burger, recorded from the mid-20th century, originated in Hamburger steak, a late-19th-century term supposedly connected with the German city of Hamburg.

Clipping of hamburger, rebracketing it as ham + burger. From around 1939. The "American" sense is likely a back-formation from Burgerland.

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