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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
burger
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a burger bar (=an informal restaurant selling burgers and fast food)
▪ The kids all hang out at the local burger bar.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bar
▪ If the image suggests running a burger bar or dry-cleaning shop, think again.
▪ Some burger bar, the Pizza Eater?
▪ A Chelmsford motorist was hit over the head during the incident at a burger bar on the A12.
■ VERB
eat
▪ You swim a few laps, lie in the sun, eat a burger.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a fish burger
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Can't a groover just have a burger without having to scrape eight tons of shit out of it!!
▪ Cut back on those juicy burgers.
▪ I got a burger, how are you guys doing?
▪ It got to the point that some of the burgers were served straight from the freezer, raw!
▪ No burger since has looked so good to me.
▪ Overseas, then, is where burgers have become most bankable.
▪ There's not a single burger on the menu.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
burger

1939, American English, shortened from hamburger (q.v.).

Wiktionary
burger

n. 1 (context informal English) A hamburger. 2 (context chiefly as a combining form English) A similar sandwich or patty.

Wikipedia
Burger

Burger may refer to:

Bürger

Bürger may refer to:

  • Ernst Moritz Buerger, founder, Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
  • Gottfried August Bürger, German poet
  • Heinrich Bürger, German physicist and biologist
  • Karl-Heinz Bürger, German SS-Oberführer
  • Martin Bürger (born 1987), German Business Sinologist
  • Martin Julian Buerger (1903-1986), American scientist
  • Roland Bürger aka Bürgermeista (born 197?), German guitarist and songwriter
  • Rudolf Bürger, Romanian footballer

Bürger is also a name of a German company, which produces Mainly Maultaschen and other Swabian food.

Burger (grape)

Burger is a white wine grape of French origin, today planted primarily in the Central Valley. Its French name is Monbadon.

In the early history of Californian wine, Burger was a majority variety but its influence has steadily decreased and now it is used primarily in bulk jug wine production.

Burger (surname)

Burger is a West Germanic surname. It is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for freeman/ burgher (German Bürger, Low German Börger) and the surname is equivalent to the English surname Burgess. In Dutch and German speaking countries it may be a toponymic surname, indicating origin from any of a number of towns ending in -burg.1 Notable people with the surname include:

Usage examples of "burger".

I shall smooth out thy frowns with a smile when thou hast heard this: this folk are not only afeard of their old enemies, the devil-led men, but also they fear those whom the devil-led men have driven out of house and home, to wit, the Burgers.

Burgers were fierce without head-strong folly, and the Wheat-wearers deemed that if they blenched now, they had something worse than death to look to.

Afterward they stopped at the Station, a little hamburger place that slathered the burgers with mushrooms and guacamole, then went back to her flat to make love.

But chef Tripp Mauldin, previously at Michael Mina and the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco, who arrived in mid-2005, has upped the culinary ante in a big way, offering fabulous crispy roast chicken with summer corn, chanterelles, lardoons, baby potatoes, and jus, outstanding burgers, and tasty seafood such as King salmon with arugula salad, heirloom tomatoes, olives, basil, and parmesan.

A few opto wags had begun calling the result air burgers, sometimes non-air burgers.

My cousin, fellow namesake of Ouma Marie Burger, is seeing the world at present.

Burger decided that a more equitable rule would be to allow any justice, whether that individual had been on the Court or not, to bring up a vote on a rehearing petition.

A Thai restaurant faced a Columbian coffee shop, which was flanked by a franchise burger place, which overpowered a minuscule West Indian roti shop, which, despite the competition, was jammed full of customers.

Burger, you can contact Aaron Slaker, CEO of Reliance, and verify my association with the company.

Guys ordered more things in tomatillo sauce, went through a lot of little bottles of Tabasco, and asked for sliced jalapenos on their burgers.

Halfway along Lower Parliament Street a corporation bus driver had ploughed into the back of a Burger King delivery truck and the consequent brouhaha had blocked the traffic both ways from the Theatre Royal to the Albert Hall and Institute.

The best one-kilo bison burgers in Moose Jaw, and a location directly across the street from the Mountie depot, made it a popular spot for after-duty Mounties to relax.

Luther quit Burger Boy and accepted a job from FAGERBAN harvesting Plasminogen Recepts for eight bucks an hour, would you disown him?

Felice drew her gun, walked behind the counter, confiscated the burger for lab analysis and bagged Jesus Samosa on the spot.

If he gave the show to the Englishwoman, she, Veronique Dutot, could end up flipping burgers in a fast-food joint.