horseburger

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noun

A burger made from horsemeat.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounhorseburger (plural horseburgers)

plural horseburgers

  1. A burger made from horsemeat.

    One caveat – while the grah (hearty bean stew) is particularly good, traditional fare like horseburgers may not be to everyone's taste.

    2010, Piers Letcher, Croatia, 4th
    2 more examples

    […]and then the long confab with the man behind the counter of the horseburger stand, a tasty mouthful inside a bun crisped to perfection, the whole topped with a generous serving of onions, mustard, ketchup, salt and pepper[…]

    1959, Ronald Hambleton, Every man is an island

    And yet... Let's be honest about the horseburger thing: public outrage is based on an essentially irrational inconsistency about which animals we eat and which we don't. Why is eating horse any different from eating cow?

    2013, James Kirkup (The Daily Telegraph), Horseburgers: it's OK to eat horses, but remember to say thank you

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