flip burgers

English

Verb

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.
   • 2001, Glenda Howard, Cita's World:

     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 […]

Related terms

• burger flipper