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Hamburger menus visually represent a stacked list of options

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Those three parallel horizontal lines crammed in the corner of your screen are universally known as the hamburger menu. Designed to hide messy navigation links on small mobile screens, the icon is supposed to signify a compact list. Instead, it mostly signifies that the developers completely ran out of usable screen real estate.

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