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half pounder

half pounder is the alternative form of half-pounder.

Meaning of half-pounder

Noun

half-pounder (plural half-pounders)

  1. A beef hamburger sandwich whose patty weighed approximately half a pound prior to being cooked.
  2. A burger sandwich with a patty of such an uncooked weight, of an alternative to beef.
  3. A burger patty of such an uncooked weight.
  4. A food item similar to a patty of such an uncooked weight, such as a meatball.
  5. A sandwich weighing approximately half a pound.
  6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see half, pounder: Anything weighing half a pound.

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Forms of half pounder

pluralhalf pounders

Questions about half pounder

What is half pounder the alternative form of?
Half pounder is the alternative form of half-pounder.

Words near half pounder in the dictionary

  1. half pay
  2. half pike
  3. half pipe
  4. half pipes
  5. half polluted
  6. half pounder
  7. half pounders
  8. half rest
  9. half rests
  10. half rhyme
  11. half rhymes

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