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half-pounder

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English

Syllables
half--pounder
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A beef hamburger sandwich whose patty weighed approximately half a pound prior to being cooked.

noun

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

noun

A burger patty of such an uncooked weight.

noun

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

noun

A sandwich weighing approximately half a pound.

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see half, pounder: Anything weighing half a pound.

adj

Having a weight of a 1/2 of a pound.

Etymology

From half + pound + -er.

Inflected Forms

half-pounders (plural) half pounder (alternative) halfpounder (alternative)

Phrases

full-pound full-pounder quarter-pound quarter-pounder third-pound third-pounder

Frequently Paired Words

full-pound full-pounder half pound pounder quarter-pound quarter-pounder third-pound

Synonyms

half-pound

Questions

What does half-pounder mean?
A beef hamburger sandwich whose patty weighed approximately half a pound prior to being cooked.
Where does half-pounder come from?
From half + pound + -er.

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