Meaning

6 senses
  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.

Origin

From half + pound + -er.

From half + pound + -er.

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