burger

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A similar sandwich or patty.

   She was planning to have a burger for dinner.

2. 2
   noun

   a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients

3. 3
   noun

   A hamburger.

4. 4
   noun

   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).

5. 5
   noun

   A stereotypical well-off Pakistani aspiring to a westernized lifestyle.

6. 6
   noun

   An American.

7. 7
   noun

   Alternative form of burgher.

8. 8
   noun

   Alternative spelling of Burgher (“member of a Sri Lankan people”).

Etymology

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