hamburg

plural hamburgs

1. countableuncountableA Hamburg steak
2. Midwestern UScountableslanguncountablehamburger (food)

   "I remember Deloney," the man said. "I waited on him in my father's hamburg joint once or twice.

   1964, Ross Macdonald, chapter 22, in The Chill

3. New Englanduncountableground beef; hamburger meat

present singular third person hamburgs · participle present hamburging · participle past hamburged · past hamburged

1. To annoy.

   1 more example

   The reporter even contacted Fiona Richmond, who remained a close friend of Raymond's. 'I phoned PR to tell him they were hamburging me (a wonderful Grenadian expression for annoying me),' she recalled, 'and he said, "I know. What you do is ask them for lots of money, and then you and I will make up some stuff and then you can share the money you get with me."'

   2013, Paul Willetts, The Look of Love: The Life and Times of Paul Raymond, Soho's King of Clubs

1. The second largest city in, and a state of, Germany.
2. Any of various communities in the United States; named for the German city:
   1. A city, the county seat of Ashley County, Arkansas.
   2. A community in the town of Lyme, New London County, Connecticut.
   3. A village in Calhoun County, Illinois.
   4. An unincorporated community in Clark County, Indiana.
   5. An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Indiana.
   6. A small city in Fremont County, Iowa.
   7. An unincorporated community in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.
   8. A small city in Carver County, Minnesota.
   9. A ghost town in St. Charles County, Missouri.
   10. A borough of Sussex County, New Jersey.
   11. A town and village therein, in Erie County, New York.
   12. An unincorporated community in Fairfield County, Ohio.
   13. An unincorporated community in Preble County, Ohio.
   14. A borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
   15. A ghost town in Aiken County, South Carolina.
   16. A small town and unincorporated community in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
   17. A small town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
3. A town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa; named for the German city.
4. Hamburger SV, a German football club.

plural Hamburgs · alternative Hamburgh

1. A Hamburg chicken.
2. A variety of black grape.