# burger

Pronunciation: US say "BUR-gur" /ˈbɝɡɚ/; UK say "BUR-guh" /ˈbɜː(ɹ)ɡə(ɹ)/

## Noun

1. A flat cooked patty, usually of ground beef but also of chicken, fish, beans, or vegetables, typically served inside a sliced round bun.
   - Simple: A flat round piece of cooked meat or other food, usually served in a soft round bread roll.
   - _She ordered a burger and fries at the diner near the highway._
   - _The food truck sells burgers topped with grilled onions and pickles._
2. Any sandwich served between two halves of a bread roll or bun, whatever the filling; in North American use, only one containing a patty. *(Australia, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, UK)*
   - Simple: Any sandwich made with a round bread bun, no matter what filling is inside it.
   - _At the British pub, even pulled pork piled into a bun was listed as a burger._
   - _My American friend laughed when the London menu called a bacon-and-egg roll a breakfast burger._
3. A disparaging slang name for an American person.
   - Simple: An unkind internet name for a person from the United States.
   - _One anonymous poster sneered that the average burger couldn't locate France on a map._
   - _The thread filled up with Europeans ribbing burgers about portion sizes and tipping._
4. A disparaging label for a well-off Pakistani seen as aspiring to a westernized lifestyle. *(Pakistan)*
   - Simple: An unkind name for a rich Pakistani person who copies Western ways of living.
   - _Back in Lahore, his old classmates called him a burger for his imported sneakers and the English he mixed into every sentence._
   - _The columnist mocked the city's burgers for protesting only when their gated communities were affected._

## Origin

This short form dates from the late 1930s. Speakers treated hamburger as if it were made of ham + burger, then dropped the first part. Burgerland is the likely source, by back-formation, of the "American" sense.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/burger (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).