hamburger

Noun

a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients
beef that has been ground
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.
Ellipsis of hamburger button.
Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a short rectangle.

Verb

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

Examples

I'm going to make you into hamburger if you do that again.
The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger.

Origin / Etymology

Shortening of Hamburger sandwich, Hamburger steak, etc.; or, less likely, borrowed from German Hamburger (“native of Hamburg”), equivalent to Hamburg + -er.

Synonyms

beefburger, burger, ground beef, hamburger patty, liberty sandwich

Scrabble Score: 17

hamburger: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
hamburger: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hamburger: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 20

hamburger: valid Words With Friends Word