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shamburger

shamburger noun: a hamburger made with vegetarian ingredients instead of meat.

Noun

shamburger (plural shamburgers)

  1. (informal) A hamburger made with vegetarian ingredients instead of meat.
    • My middle son, Matthew, then 10 years old, agreed to help me teach a vegetarian cooking class called 'Foods Kids Love.' Kids came to the class with a parent and learned to make 'shamburgers,' bean tostadas, Chinese egg rolls, […]2002, Adventist Review, volume 179, numbers 27-52, page 988
    • The herbs are from Julia's recipe for the sausage and I added them to the shamburger.2015, Jim Henle, The Proof and the Pudding, page 159
    Synonyms:
    veggie burger

Proper noun capitalized: Shamburger

Shamburger (plural Shamburgers)

  1. A surname.

Synonyms of shamburger

Forms of shamburger

Noun
pluralshamburgers
Proper noun
pluralShamburgers

Origin of shamburger

Blend of sham + hamburger.

Questions about shamburger

What does shamburger mean?
Shamburger means a hamburger made with vegetarian ingredients instead of meat.
What part of speech is shamburger?
Shamburger can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of shamburger?
The plural of shamburger is shamburgers.

Words near shamburger in the dictionary

  1. Shambos
  2. shambrough
  3. shambroughs
  4. shambuk
  5. shambuks
  6. shamburger
  7. shamburgers
  8. Shamchun
  9. shamdemic
  10. shamdemics
  11. shame

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