Meanings
plural hamburgerias
- alternativeAlternative form of hamburgery.
As is to be expected, Bellingham has a number of respectable hamburgerias.
1983 September 21, John Doerper, “One man’s guide to grub in Bellingham”, in The Bellingham Herald, page 245 more examples
Whatever public relations firm handles McDonald’s hamburgerias must be at the point of exhaustion.
1971 August 2, “Wandering around”, in Linn Brown, editor, The Argus, volume XI, number 98, page 2Place is a deluxe hamburgeria and is rapidly becoming the “in” place for socialites […]
1974 November 25, The Miami News, page 7BOn the way home, a stop at a well-known hamburgeria gave an opportunity for comparison.
1979 October 4, Ruth Gray, “Stadium food — always bet on an upset”, in St. Petersburg Times, volume 96, number 72, page 1DMax, a gloom monger since the death of his WASPy-wife Janey, first meets Nora at the White Palace hamburgeria where she works, and later at a redneck dive where he goes to do what one does at such places, namely, drink until you’re more depressed than when you first got there.
1987 December 20, Peter Larsen, “St. Louis novelist debuts with impressive love story”, in Belleville News-Democrat, page 18The recent news of a corporate takeover, which is forecast to transform 381 Wimpy bars into Burger King outlets and so precipitate a High Street hamburger war with McDonald’s, signalled the end of an era for those seminal hamburgerias of the swinging Sixties that were so often confused with a construction company or Popeye’s cartoon companion of the same name.
1989 October 10, “First bites at the burger”, in Evening Standard, page 28
Origin
From hamburg(er) + -eria, after pizzeria.
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