>"hamburger" -- a column of three horizontal bars
>"kebab" -- three vertical dots
>"meatball" -- three horizontal dots

Now we know what they ate at those naming conventions. Never figured out what they drank, must have been some nasty shit.

Stole this, reselling already.

>Whenever I'd called this icon "ellipsis", most people don't seem to know what that means (sometimes they've never heard that name, or are wondering why I'm talking about ovals). Most often I've had to say "three dots arranged up/down" (since I've run across folks who didn't know what "vertical" and "horizontal" meant).

You'd be surprised at the number of elementary things that aren't, depending on context. The context, it's others.