Hamburger

Definitions

1. A person from Hamburg.
2. 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.
   countable, uncountable
3. The patty used in such a sandwich.
   countable, uncountable
4. Ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers.
   uncountable
5. An animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an accident or conflict.
   US, colloquial, countable, uncountable
6. Ellipsis of hamburger button.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
7. Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a short rectangle.
   US, countable, informal, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger.”

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

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