cheeseburger
nounUK /ˈtʃiːzˌbɜː.ɡə/ · US /ˈtʃizˌbɝ.ɡɚ/
Etymology Blend of cheese + hamburger (1928). By surface analysis, cheese + -burger.
1
A hamburger containing cheese (usually one or more slices of processed cheese).
- Neon in daylight is a / great pleasure, as Edwin Denby would / write, as are light bulbs in daylight. / I stop for a cheeseburger at JULIET'S / CORNER.1956, Frank O'Hara, A Step Away from Them:
- Busy Americans (many women were working and not cooking as much) were dining on foods such as deep-fried chicken, thick slices of pizza, double cheeseburgers, and big slabs of steak.2007, Loretta Ichord, Double Cheeseburgers, Quiche, and Vegetarian Burritos, page 48:
2
Government, Military, Politics, War Slang The BLU-82 bomb.
- Derived terms
- cheeseburgery, minicheeseburger
- Related terms
- burger