a food made by pressing small pieces of beef (=meat from a cow) into a flat round shape and cooking it in oil. Hamburgers are usually eaten in a bread roll and are often called beefburgers or simply burgers.
Synonyms and related words
Burgers and sausages
a quarter-pounder/half-pounder
banger
beefburger
hamburger
noun countable
US /ˈhæmˌbɜrɡər/
Other entries for this word
hamburger menunoun
hamburger iconnoun at hamburger menu
Word Forms
singular
hamburger
plural
hamburgers
DEFINITIONS1
1
a food made by pressing small pieces of beef (=meat from a cow) into a flat round shape and cooking it in oil. Hamburgers are usually eaten in a bread bun and are often called burgers.