Meanings
plural cowburgers
- rareA burger made with cow meat.
And lo! we shall fire up a thousand WEBERS and make the biggest goddamned barbeque of sacred cowburgers the world has ever SEEN!
1995 March 21, Rick Gordon, “Chicago”, in alt.society.neutopia (Usenet)2 more examples
With regards to cannibalism - I don't say it[']s wrong, society does. If I open a restaurant that serves humanburgers, I'd be locked up for a long time. Cowburgers, now that's a different thing.
1992 May 20, [Brook] <loewen@meena.cc.uregina.ca>, “Suffering”, in talk.politics.animals (Usenet)Strange thing is, although I never think about turkeys when I'm eating a turkeyburger or ever think about cows when I'm eating a cowburger, after every bit of the ostrichburger I thought about ostriches.
1996 July 17, Ned Ludd, “Outa the mouths of Babes!”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet)
Origin
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