quarter-pounder

短语

词形变化

quarter-pounders 复数

别名

quarter pounder

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A burger patty of such uncooked weight.

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  2. 2.

    A food item similar to a burger patty of such uncooked weight, such as a meatball.

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  3. 3.

    A sandwich weighing approximately a quarter of a pound.

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  4. 4.

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see quarter, pounder: Anything weighing a quarter of a pound.

  5. 5.

    A beef hamburger whose patty weighed approximately a quarter of a pound before cooking.

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    2011, Simon Day, Comedy and Error: They Really Were Marvellous Times Unfortunately he found me on my own in a Wimpy an hour later nursing a quarter pounder with cheese.

  6. 6.

    A burger with a patty of such uncooked weight, of an alternative to beef.

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adj.
  1. 1.

    Having a weight of a 1/4 of a pound.

词源

From the Quarter Pounder, a hamburger sold by the fast food chain McDonald's since 1971. By surface analysis, quarter + pound + -er. Now sometimes used as a genericized trademark, although the trademark remains active in many countries.

来源:wiktionary