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cheeseburger

/ˈtʃiːzˌbɜː.ɡə//ˈtʃizˌbɝ.ɡɚ/

cheeseburger noun: a hamburger containing cheese (usually one or more slices of processed cheese).

cheeseburger: a hamburger containing cheese (usually one or more slices of processed cheese)
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Noun

cheeseburger (plural cheeseburgers)

  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.1956, Frank O'Hara, A Step Away from Them
    • Busy Americans (many women were working and not cooking as much) were dining on foods such as deep-fried chicken, thick slices of pizza, double cheeseburgers, and big slabs of steak.2007, Loretta Ichord, Double Cheeseburgers, Quiche, and Vegetarian Burritos, page 48
    Synonyms:
    cheesehamburger
  2. (slang) The BLU-82 bomb.

Verb

cheeseburger (third-person singular simple present cheeseburgers, present participle cheeseburgering, simple past and past participle cheeseburgered)

  1. (rare, transitive) To transform, top, or enrich something ordinary with melted cheese.

cheeseburger meaning in Marathi, Arabic and Persian

cheeseburger in Marathi

hamburger with cheese
चीजबर्गर cījbargar

cheeseburger in Arabic

hamburger with cheese
تْشِيز بَرْغَر tšīz barḡar, تْشِيز بَرْجَر tšīz bargar

cheeseburger in Persian

hamburger with cheese
چیزبرگر čizberger

Examples of cheeseburger in a sentence

  • I could use a cheeseburger right now.
  • Person A: Not another cheeseburger, Marcia?
  • Carlos had ordered a fully loaded cheeseburger—with the hoop cheese and the sweet-potato fries.

All 15 example sentences with cheeseburger

Synonyms of cheeseburger

Forms of cheeseburger

Noun
pluralcheeseburgers
Verb
third-person singular presentcheeseburgers
present participlecheeseburgering
past participlecheeseburgered
pastcheeseburgered

Plural of cheeseburger: cheeseburgers

Origin of cheeseburger

Blend of cheese + hamburger (1928). By surface analysis, cheese + -burger.

Words formed from cheeseburger

Questions about cheeseburger

What does cheeseburger mean?
Cheeseburger means a hamburger containing cheese (usually one or more slices of processed cheese).
What is cheeseburger in Marathi?
Cheeseburger in Marathi is चीजबर्गर (cījbargar). See Cheeseburger meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is cheeseburger?
Cheeseburger can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce cheeseburger?
Cheeseburger is pronounced /ˈtʃiːzˌbɜː.ɡə/ (UK).
What is the plural of cheeseburger?
The plural of cheeseburger is cheeseburgers.

Words near cheeseburger in the dictionary

  1. Cheeseboroughs
  2. cheesebox
  3. cheeseboxes
  4. Cheesebrough
  5. Cheesebroughs
  6. cheeseburger
  7. cheeseburgered
  8. cheeseburgering
  9. cheeseburgerless
  10. cheeseburgers
  11. cheeseburgery

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cheeseburger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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