mooseburger

English[edit]

mooseburger (countable and uncountable, plural mooseburgers)

A burger made from moose meat.
- 1947 October 21, The Washington Post‎^[1], 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”, in Philadelphia Inquirer‎^[2], 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.
(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.