Other forms: burgers
A burger is the round fast food of a flat patty of meat inside a soft bun. A cheeseburger, order a burger, burger and chips.
Hamburger is the full form, and the fillings name the variants: cheeseburger, veggie burger, chicken burger. The bun is a bap or a brioche bun; the flat piece of meat is the patty. Burger joint and burger bar are the informal names for the shop. Note that hamburger contains no ham, which is why -burger became a productive ending for anything served the same way.
1nounburgerA flat patty of meat served in a soft bun.
“The burger was enormous and gone in four minutes.”
synonyms: hamburger
burger is a food.
Also accepted in games: hamburger
The word comes from Hamburg, the German city, by way of the Hamburg steak served to emigrants crossing the Atlantic. English then heard hamburger as ham plus burger, and cut it in half to make a new word — which is why every burger since is named after a mistake.
Clipping of hamburger. a clipping of hamburger, it as ham. First use appears c. 1937. Sense 5 is likely a back-formation from Burgerland.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA