flip burgers

verb

To be employed in a low-paid menial job, especially one in a fast-food restaurant.

Meanings

verbflip burgers (third-person singular simple present flips burgers, present participle flipping burgers, simple past and past participle flipped burgers)

present singular third person flips burgers · participle present flipping burgers · participle past flipped burgers · past flipped burgers

  1. derogatoryinformalTo be employed in a low-paid menial job, especially one in a fast-food restaurant.

    My hand was aching to slap that silly heifer. I told her to take her trifling ass down to Burger King and get herself a job flipping burgers […]

    2001, Glenda Howard, Cita's World
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