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hamburger

5 definitions • 8 examples
1
a round, flat piece of minced beef, fried and usually eaten between two halves of a bread roll
2
beef that is cut into very small pieces, used to make hamburgers
3
a symbol consisting of three horizontal lines that you can touch or click on to see a menu, for example on a website or phone app:

Examples:

Every time I click on the hamburger the page scrolls to the top.
The hamburger button is typically found in a top corner of a graphical user interface.
If you’re designing a website, it’s usually recommended that you place hamburger icons in the top left corner of a page.
Click on the hamburger menu (three bars) in the top right corner.
4
a road junction (= where roads come together) consisting of a main road that goes through the middle of a roundabout (= a junction where traffic must go around a circular area in the middle):

Examples:

The simplest of these road layouts is the hamburger, which ploughs a two-way road through a central island.
a hamburger junction/island/roundabout
5
very small pieces of beef (= meat from cattle), or this meat pressed into a round, flat shape, cooked, and usually eaten as a sandwich in a small, round roll (= piece of bread):

Examples:

[ U ] a pound of hamburger (meat)
[ C ] I’ll take a hamburger and French fries, please.

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