burger-flipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burger-flippers
Senses: examples: text: The lure of fast money over $6 as a burger-flipper is sometimes hard to resist.
ref: 1989, Al Quint, “Mordred”, in Suburban Voice, number 28, Lynn, Mass., column 2:
text: I know it’s about as far from being a film star as a burger-flipper is from being a Michelin-star chef, but at least we’ll be busy for the next month and they’ll be paying us so I won’t need to bug Mum and Dad for money any more.
ref: 2008, Judy May [pseudonym; Judymay Murphy], “Day Eleven”, in Diamond Star Girl, Dublin: The O’Brien Press, →ISBN, page 52:
text: I worked as a burger-flipper for a month, but in that time the trousers continually looked like they had been sprayed on.
ref: 2014, Dan Walker with Gershon Portnoi, “The Most Dangerous Jobs in Football”, in Dan Walker’s Football Thronkersaurus: Football’s Finest Tales, London: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 8:
text: My age and the length of my unemployment, not to mention my professional past, precludes me from working as a burger-flipper or salesperson.
ref: 2015 December 21–28, Molotov Cocktail, Anyone? [pseudonym], “Asking for a Friend: Love and Class War”, in The Nation, volume 301, numbers 25–26, New York, N.Y., page 5, column 2:
text: He was a dedicated burger-flipper at St. Peters Parish Picnic for many years.
ref: 2019 June 12, Shuda Funeral Services and Crematory, “[Obituaries] Richard ‘Dick’ Pudroski”, in Stevens Point Journal, volume 147, number 163, Stevens Point, Wis., page 2A, column 1:
text: As the COVID-19 virus grows into a global threat, I can’t help but think about all the baristas, burger-flippers, train operators and janitors of the world — all the hard-working people across America who might go into work sick because they have to.
ref: 2020 March 17, Robin Carver, “In a pandemic, service workers need paid sick leave”, in Arizona Daily Star, volume 179, number 77, Tucson, Ariz., page A4, columns 3–4:
text: Starting pay for the humblest burger-flipper at McDonald’s in Denmark is about $22 an hour.
ref: 2020 May 15, Nicholas D[onabet] Kristof, “Actually, nothing rotten in state of Denmark”, in The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa., page A11, column 2:
text: Earlier this month, Rex Thompson, chief burger-flipper at Rex’s Hamburgers, was also wondering how he’d get his stand assembled.
ref: 2021 September 6, Rachel Lorenz, “Back to the Fairgrounds: New Mexico State Fair vendors, returning after a year away, are optimistic despite a slate of new challenges”, in Business Outlook (Albuquerque Journal), Albuquerque, N.M., page 11, column 1:
text: Chris Tilly, a labor economist at UCLA, said the shortages among burger-flippers and cashiers is notable “because those low-end jobs more typically have a labor surplus.”
ref: 2021 September 7, Ben Finley, Tom Krisher, “Amid labor shortage, union workers feeling emboldened: Organized workers bargaining for higher pay, improved benefits”, in Sun Journal, Lewiston, Me., page B4, column 5:
text: Let’s look at the parable of the burger-flipper for a second. It seems like the fry cook is always held over the heads of middle-class children to get them to study harder and dream bigger. “You can be whatever you want to be if you try hard enough” was the carrot and “You don’t want to be flipping burgers for the rest of your life” was the stick.
ref: 2021 December 20, Sophie Yarin, “Terms of unemployment: Examining the youth work crisis”, in The Daily Item, volume 142, number 320, Lynn, Mass., page A7, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of burger flipper.