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Burner

//ˈbɜːnə// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something that burns.
  2. 2
    A participant in the Burning Man festival.
  3. 3
    an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse) wordnet
  4. 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. 5
    the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking wordnet
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  1. 6
    A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
  2. 7
    A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
  3. 8
    A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.
  4. 9
    A device that records data or music to an optical disc, such as a CD-R or DVD-RW.
  5. 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"

  6. 11
    An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
  7. 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."

  8. 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, […]"

  9. 14
    A pyrotechnic tear gas canister. slang
  10. 15
    A gun. slang
  11. 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
  12. 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."

Etymology

From burn + -er. Merged with and eclipsed related Middle English brennar, brennere (“an incendiary, incinerator”). Compare German Brenner (“burner”), Swedish brännare (“burner”).

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