1959 — Burnham Kelly, Design and the Production of Houses, McGraw-Hill (1959), page 97:
He has generally been responsible for developing, or at least adopting, the prototypes of our variously styled and built present-day houses, be they Georgian, Cape Cod, contemporary, or even ranchburger.
1968 — Savings and Loan News, Volume 89, page 62:
Home builders are beginning to recognize that not everybody needs or even wants a standard three- to four-bedroom ranchburger on a conventional 50' x 150' lot.
Although an astronaut on the space station will have no more than 300 cubic feet per person of space compared with about 3000 cubic feet per person in a typical "American ranchburger" home, […]
Days later, to no international fanfare but much local gossip, San Antonio Light editor Ted Warmbold threw his own gallery opening at his house in ranchburger suburbia for more than three hundred guests.
1991 — Ellen Harris, Dying to Get Married: The Courtship and Murder of Julie Miller Bulloch, HarperPaperbacks (1991), →ISBN, page 121:
Judy Drive was a short gravel-mixed road flanked by a dozen aluminum-sided "ranchburgers" with wading pools or pick-up trucks parked on the front lawns.
1994 — Claudia Johnson, Stifled Laughter: One Woman's Story About Fighting Censorship, Fulcrum Publishing (1994), →ISBN, page 123:
We found one, a sprawling ranchburger right down the road from Susan Davis.
1998 — Christine Kreyling, "Reading the Row", in Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky-Tonk Bars (ed. Cecelia Tichi), Duke University Press (1998), →ISBN, page 317:
[…] it features an atrium and a red-and-white leather conference room that offers a splendid view of the old Hank Williams ranchburger[…]
1999 — Julie V. Iovine, "Amazing Grace", The New York Times, 3 October 1999:
The focus of this attention was the announcement that the Ralph Sr. and Sunny Wilson House -- a 1950's ranchburger sheathed wall to wall and counter to shower in jelly-bean-toned laminates -- was being awarded national landmark status.
2000 — David Brill, A Separate Place: A Family, a Cabin in the Woods, and a Journey of Love and Spirit, Dutton (2000), →ISBN, page 44:
Susan and the girls and I lived in a '60s-era ranchburger that Susan and I once described as the "ugliest house in West Knoxville" long before we ever imagined we'd live there.
"I don't know. I suppose the kid hasn't been shitting us. He didn't spend the winter hanging out in a ranchburger in suburbia — at least not one that had carpets and drapes."
2002 — Annie Proulx, That Old Ace in the Hole, Harper Perennial (2004), →ISBN, page 128:
The twin houses had been abandoned in 1974, the Crouches shifting into a characterless prefab ranchburger with contemporary plumbing and heat, an attached three-car garage.
All over Atlanta, guarding ostentatious McMansions on Mount Paran as well as modest ranchburgers on Windsor Parkway, are entry gates attached to pillars of stone, brick or stucco.
2007 — Claire Cook, Life's a Beach, Hyperion (2007), →ISBN, page 12:
A hip little bungalow would be more my style, though at this point I'd probably be perfectly happy to settle for a ranchburger.
Noun: "(US) a hamburger featuring elements of the cuisine of the Southwestern United States[edit]
One of these main dishes is the western ranchburger on a bun which is an oven baked giant hamburger.
1966 — "Ground Beef Extra Spicy", The Baltimore Sun, 7 April 1966:
Make ranchburgers by dividing the meat for each hamburger into two patties. Place a spoonful of chili sauce and chopped onion on one patty and cover it with the other, sealing it well at the edges.
1989 — "A Hacienda for Hungry Travelers", The Sacramento Bee, 13 January 1989:
I went for the "world famous" Harris Ranch prime rib (7 ounces, $12.95, 10 ounces, $15.50), while the wife selected the bacon guacamole ranchburger ($6.50).
For lunch, we ate ranchburgers and chicken rice soup beside highway women — blaze-vested signholders — recruited from town for some roadwork near the entrance to the Forty Bar.