"flip burgers" meaning in English

See flip burgers in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: flips burgers [present, singular, third-person], flipping burgers [participle, present], flipped burgers [participle, past], flipped burgers [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=flip burgers}} flip burgers (third-person singular simple present flips burgers, present participle flipping burgers, simple past and past participle flipped burgers)
  1. (informal, derogatory) To be employed in a low-paid menial job, especially one in a fast-food restaurant. Tags: derogatory, informal Related terms: burger flipper
    Sense id: en-flip_burgers-en-verb-39cyVhYT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flips burgers",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flipping burgers",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flipped burgers",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flipped burgers",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "flip burgers"
      },
      "expansion": "flip burgers (third-person singular simple present flips burgers, present participle flipping burgers, simple past and past participle flipped burgers)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Glenda Howard, Cita's World:",
          "text": "My hand was aching to slap that silly heifer. I told her to take her trifling ass down to Burger King and get herself a job flipping burgers […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be employed in a low-paid menial job, especially one in a fast-food restaurant."
      ],
      "id": "en-flip_burgers-en-verb-39cyVhYT",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "employed",
          "employed"
        ],
        [
          "low-paid",
          "low-paid"
        ],
        [
          "menial",
          "menial"
        ],
        [
          "job",
          "job"
        ],
        [
          "especially",
          "especially"
        ],
        [
          "fast-food",
          "fast-food"
        ],
        [
          "restaurant",
          "restaurant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, derogatory) To be employed in a low-paid menial job, especially one in a fast-food restaurant."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "burger flipper"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flip burgers"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flips burgers",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flipping burgers",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flipped burgers",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flipped burgers",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "flip burgers"
      },
      "expansion": "flip burgers (third-person singular simple present flips burgers, present participle flipping burgers, simple past and past participle flipped burgers)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "burger flipper"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Glenda Howard, Cita's World:",
          "text": "My hand was aching to slap that silly heifer. I told her to take her trifling ass down to Burger King and get herself a job flipping burgers […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be employed in a low-paid menial job, especially one in a fast-food restaurant."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "employed",
          "employed"
        ],
        [
          "low-paid",
          "low-paid"
        ],
        [
          "menial",
          "menial"
        ],
        [
          "job",
          "job"
        ],
        [
          "especially",
          "especially"
        ],
        [
          "fast-food",
          "fast-food"
        ],
        [
          "restaurant",
          "restaurant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, derogatory) To be employed in a low-paid menial job, especially one in a fast-food restaurant."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flip burgers"
}

Download raw JSONL data for flip burgers meaning in English (1.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.