Slang/abbreviation for city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. The term, although specific origins are unknown, is thought to have lingered through generations of "Burqueños," (people from Albuquerque).

Conflict:
Very recently there has been a collective reaffirmation of this nickname in response to current Mayor Martin Chavez's announcement of a commercially-driven re-branding of Albuquerque as the "the Q." Many people feel as if this new nickname has nothing to do with Albuquerque, but with a gentrified version of the city that has been sanitized to be more palatable to outside investors. Nevertheless, new city buses and other city-run aspects of the community have adopted/been branded with this new catch-phrase.

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The city of dukes, Albuquerque. While many uneducated YOLOs claim the origin is unknown, the original gente knows. The word is short for the original spelling of the city "Alburquerque", in which you find the word burque. This is the original name of the founders and the original city in Spain.

Refers to Albuquerque, NM.

It is the inspiration for a forthcoming real-estate venture, to be known as "Burque Homes".

Burque Homes slogan will be:

"Burque Homes...holmes. Get your home from Burque Homes, holmes."

Abbreviation for Albuquerque

Albuquerque, the main city in the nmwasteland

The nickname given to Albuquerque by hispanic locals. In the past ten years or so a nameless local free weekly magazine decided to steal the term and anglicize for their own shameless self promotion by changing the pronounciation from Burque to "Ber-kee".