hamburgers

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of hamburger.

   The diner sells more hamburgers on Friday nights than any other day.

   She layered the hamburgers with melted cheese and grilled onions.

   Note

   The plural belongs to the countable uses: sandwiches, the patties inside them, and even the hamburger button on a screen. Ground beef meant for cooking is uncountable, so a shopping list asks for a pound of hamburger, not hamburgers. The same spelling also serves the verb for mangling flesh, where it pairs with a singular subject in the present tense.

2. 2
   verbcolloquial

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of hamburger.

   The grinder hamburgers the trimmed chuck into a coarse, even blend.

   He hamburgers the venison so the kids won't notice it isn't beef.

   Note

   The verb behind this form is informal and transitive. It needs an object, usually a fleshy part of the body, as in a fall that hamburgers his knee. It takes the noun's colloquial sense of badly injured flesh and turns it into an action, so it belongs to casual talk about injuries rather than careful writing.

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