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hamburgering

hamburgering is the present participle and gerund of hamburger.

Meaning of hamburger

Verb

hamburger (third-person singular simple present hamburgers, present participle hamburgering, simple past and past participle hamburgered)

  1. (informal, transitive) To badly injure or damage (a fleshy part of the body).
    • The men played baseball on coral diamonds that tore their shoes and clothes and hamburgered their hands.1944, C. G. Morris, Hugh B. Cave, “The Fightin’est Ship”: The Story of the Cruiser “Helena”, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, page 62

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Questions about hamburgering

What is hamburgering the present participle and gerund of?
Hamburgering is the present participle and gerund of hamburger.

Words near hamburgering in the dictionary

  1. hamburger steaks
  2. hamburgered
  3. hamburgeria
  4. hamburgerias
  5. hamburgeries
  6. hamburgering
  7. hamburgerless
  8. hamburgerlike
  9. hamburgerologist
  10. hamburgerologists
  11. hamburgerology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hamburgering (page history and authors); hamburger (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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