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quarter-pounder
quarter-pounder
A hamburger that weighs roughly four ounces (a quarter of a pound) before it is cooked. The phrase is best-known as the name of a hamburger served at McDonald's fast food restaurants. I think I'm going get a quarter-pounder for dinner tonight—what would you like?
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
AlÍCia | | - | Catalan, Portuguese |
Godfried | | KHAWT-freet | Dutch |
Trygve | | - | Swedish, Norwegian, Danish |
Justina | | [dʒəs'ti:nə] | |
Satish | | - | Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu |
Naamah | | NAY-ə-mə (English), nah-ah-MAH (Jewish) | Biblical, Hebrew |