half-pounder
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half-pounder
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From half + pound + -er.
noun half-pounders · half pounder · halfpounder
- A beef hamburger sandwich whose patty weighed approximately half a pound prior to being cooked.
- A burger sandwich with a patty of such an uncooked weight, of an alternative to beef.
- A burger patty of such an uncooked weight.
- A food item similar to a patty of such an uncooked weight, such as a meatball.
- A sandwich weighing approximately half a pound.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see half, pounder: Anything weighing half a pound.
adjective half pounder · halfpounder
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Having a weight of a 1/2 of a pound.
Similar: half-pound
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title = {half-pounder},
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