-burger
a combining form extracted from hamburger, occurring in compounds the initial element of which denotes a special garnish for a hamburger or a subst-tute ingredient for the meat patty:
baconburger; cheeseburger; fishburger.
-burger
combining word
a sandwich made with cooked portions of what is indicated: beefburger/ cheeseburger/ snakeburger
[1930s+; the definition does not apply to hamburger, the source of the term. the suffix was probably first used by the comic-strip artist e c segar, who coined goonburger in the mid1930s]
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