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In some senses, hamburger is marked as informal, US, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
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.
The patty used in such a sandwich.
Ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers.
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.
Ellipsis of hamburger button.
verb
To 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.
noun
A person from Hamburg.