Meaning

2 senses
  1. A (typically beef) hamburger sandwich, whose patty weighed 1/3 of a lb (pound) before cooking.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see third, pounder.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From third + pound + -er, modelled on quarter-pounder.

From third + pound + -er, modelled on quarter-pounder.

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Forms

plural: third-pounders

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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