Meaning

6 senses
  1. A beef hamburger whose patty weighed approximately a quarter of a pound before cooking.

    2011, Simon Day, Comedy and Error: They Really Were Marvellous Times Unfortunately he found me on my own in a Wimpy an hour later nursing a quarter pounder with cheese.

  2. A burger with a patty of such uncooked weight, of an alternative to beef.

  3. A burger patty of such uncooked weight.

  4. A food item similar to a burger patty of such uncooked weight, such as a meatball.

  5. A sandwich weighing approximately a quarter of a pound.

  6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see quarter, pounder: Anything weighing a quarter of a pound.

Translations

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Origin

From the Quarter Pounder, a hamburger sold by the fast food chain McDonald's since 1971. B

From the Quarter Pounder, a hamburger sold by the fast food chain McDonald's since 1971. By surface analysis, quarter + pound + -er. Now sometimes used as a genericized trademark, although the trademark remains active in many countries.

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