hamburgeria

English

Noun

hamburgeria (plural hamburgerias)

1. Alternative form of hamburgery
   • 1971 August 2, “Wandering around”, in Linn Brown, editor, The Argus, volume XI, number 98, page 2:

     Whatever public relations firm handles McDonald’s hamburgerias must be at the point of exhaustion.

   • 1974 November 25, The Miami News, page 7B:

     Place is a deluxe hamburgeria and is rapidly becoming the “in” place for socialites […]

   • 1979 October 4, Ruth Gray, “Stadium food — always bet on an upset”, in St. Petersburg Times, volume 96, number 72, page 1D:

     On the way home, a stop at a well-known hamburgeria gave an opportunity for comparison.

   • 1983 September 21, John Doerper, “One man’s guide to grub in Bellingham”, in The Bellingham Herald, page 24:

     As is to be expected, Bellingham has a number of respectable hamburgerias.

   • 1987 December 20, Peter Larsen, “St. Louis novelist debuts with impressive love story”, in Belleville News-Democrat, page 18:

     Max, 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.

   • 1989 October 10, “First bites at the burger”, in Evening Standard, page 28:

     The 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.

   • 1995 April 1, The Tennessean, volume 91, number 91, page 6:

     The land of the trattoria and the pizzeria is under assault from the hamburgeria, in the shape of McDonald’s.

Portuguese

Noun

hamburgeria f (plural hamburgerias)

1. Alternative form of hamburgueria