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flipping burgers

flipping burgers is the present participle and gerund of flip burgers.

Meaning of flip burgers

Verb

flip burgers (third-person singular simple present flips burgers, present participle flipping burgers, simple past and past participle flipped burgers)

  1. (derogatory, informal) To be employed in a low-paid menial job, especially one in a fast-food restaurant.
    • My hand was aching to slap that silly heifer. I told her to take her trifling ass down to Burger King and get herself a job flipping burgers […]2001, Glenda Howard, Cita's World

Questions about flipping burgers

What is flipping burgers the present participle and gerund of?
Flipping burgers is the present participle and gerund of flip burgers.

Words near flipping burgers in the dictionary

  1. flippiest
  2. Flippin
  3. flippin'
  4. flipping
  5. flipping a bitch
  6. flipping burgers
  7. flipping Nora
  8. flipping off
  9. flipping on its head
  10. flipping one's lid
  11. flipping one's shit

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