hamburger

noun

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

   Ingridents used in this type of sandwich: The patty used in such a sandwich.

3. 3

   Ingridents used in this type of sandwich: Ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers.

4. 4

   An animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an accident or conflict.

   The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger.

   I'm going to make you into hamburger if you do that again.

5. 5

   informalDescribing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a short rectangle.

6. 6

   Variant of hamburger buttonEllipsis of hamburger button.

verb

1. 1

   informalTo badly injure or damage (a fleshy part of the body).

   The men played baseball on coral diamonds that tore their shoes and clothes and hamburgered their hands.

   And his tires triggered no Claymore mines or Bouncing Betties that might have hamburgered his vehicle with him in it.

   My tears are like gagged pieces of ice cutting up my eyeballs and hamburgering my face.

   It’s a trail that has taken more than its fair share of blood, my first flat tire, and hamburgered my entire forearm on a descent.

Forms

plural

hamburgers

past tense

hamburgered

past participle

hamburgered

present participle

hamburgering

third person singular

hamburgers