mooseburger

mooseburger

English

Etymology

moose +‎ -burger

Noun

mooseburger (plural mooseburgers)

1. A burger made from moose meat
   • 1947, October 21, (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, page B1:

     "Mooseburgers" were the order of the day at Lyndon Hill Junior High School, Seat Pleasant, yesterday noon.

   • 1990, February 23, Along Alaska Railroad Tracks, a Killing Winter for Moose‎, page A1:

     "It's mooseburger tonight," Mike Oakes said, rubbing his gloved hands together in the 20-below cold and giving one last shove to the rump of the dead moose hanging off the bed of his red pickup truck.

2. (US) Minced moose meat.
   • 1962, Amistad: Magazine of American Society of Mexico:

     A friend of many years standing flew down from Fairbanks, Alaska, bringing with her as many presents as old St. Nick himself might have carried – steak knives carved from walrus tusks, and, among other things, a fresh moose roast and a package of mooseburger!

   • 1992, Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder, →ISBN, page 28:

     How to gut a moose without slicing the organs and making a green, smelly mess out of the process, and how to cut it so that you got roasts and steaks instead of, as happened on her first two tries, a winter's supply of mooseburger.

   • 2011, John McPhee, Silk Parachute, →ISBN, page 152:

     From Alaska, I flew to Newark with moose meat one time— actually, mooseburger, given to me in a five-pound block by Ed and Ginny Gelvin, who lived in Central, about a hundred miles northeast of Fairbanks.