somethingburger

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Informal

"Despite the undeniable corruption, Hillary called the scandal "the biggest nothingburger ever." […] This was a somethingburger with everything on it, for crying out loud. And the media did its best to sweep it under the rug—not just for Hillary's sake, but Obama's as well."

From something + -burger, by analogy with nothingburger.

somethingburgers (plural)

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What does somethingburger mean?

Where does somethingburger come from?

From something + -burger, by analogy with nothingburger.

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