Cheeseburger

noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    a hamburger with melted cheese on it wordnet
  3. 3
    The BLU-82 bomb. slang

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin cāseusbor. Proto-Germanic *kāsijaz Proto-West Germanic *kāsī Old English ċīese Middle English chese English cheese English hamburger English cheeseburger Blend of cheese + hamburger (1928). By surface analysis, cheese + -burger.

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