Burner
noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Someone or something that burns.
- 2 A participant in the Burning Man festival.
- 3 an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse) wordnet
- 4 An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.
"She lit a burner on the stove / And offered me a pipe / "I thought you'd never say hello", she said / "You look like the silent type""
- 5 the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking wordnet
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- 6 A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
- 7 A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
- 8 A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.
- 9 A device that records data or music to an optical disc, such as a CD-R or DVD-RW.
- 10 Ellipsis of burner phone, a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang
"No one on the corner has swagger like us / Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless"
- 11 An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
- 12 Ellipsis of burner account. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang
"Internet sleuths later discovered that the username, @SO_blessed1, appeared to be a burner belonging to the Twitter user Incarcerated Bob, who had long been spreading false information."
- 13 An elaborate piece of graffiti. slang
"[…] we were doing productions, burners like 100 feet long and as tall as we could get, standing on people's shoulders, […]"
- 14 A pyrotechnic tear gas canister. slang
- 15 A gun. slang
- 16 Ellipsis of coal burner (“a nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang
- 17 Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”). alt-of, slang
"In Mississippi, Tom turned an encampment of do-gooder burners into an organization he dubbed Burners Without Borders."
Example
More examples"Put the teapot on the burner, otherwise the tea will be cold."
Etymology
From burn + -er. Merged with and eclipsed related Middle English brennar, brennere (“an incendiary, incinerator”). Compare German Brenner (“burner”), Swedish brännare (“burner”).