burner

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
11
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈbɜːnə/
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/ˈbɜːnə/ · /ˈbɝnɚ/

Definition of burner

14 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn.
    “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"”
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noun

  1. Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn.
    “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"”
  2. Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn.
  3. Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn.
  4. Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn.
  5. A device that records data or music to an optical disc, such as a CD-R or DVD-RW.
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang)Ellipsis of burner phone, a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.
    “No one on the corner has swagger like us / Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless”
  7. An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
  8. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang)Ellipsis of burner account.
    “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.”
  9. (slang)An elaborate piece of graffiti.
    “[…] we were doing productions, burners like 100 feet long and as tall as we could get, standing on people's shoulders, […]”
    “There is a hierarchy of sorts: a throw-up can go over a tag, a piece over a throw-up, and a burner over a piece.”
  10. (slang)A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
  11. (slang)A gun.
  12. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang)Ellipsis of coal burner (“a nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men”).
  13. (alt-of, slang)Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”).
    “In Mississippi, Tom turned an encampment of do-gooder burners into an organization he dubbed Burners Without Borders.”
    “White Ocean, co-founded by entrepreneurs Timur Sardarov, the son of a Russian oil magnate, and Oliver Ripley, and involving the trance DJ Paul Oakenfold, is viewed as one such camp, although it provides one of Burning Man’s biggest stages and claims to “feed hundreds of non-White Ocean burners a day”.”
    “Tens of thousands of “burners” at the Burning Man festival have been told to stay in the camps, conserve food and water and are being blocked from leaving Nevada’s Black Rock desert after a slow-moving rainstorm turned the event into a mud bath.”
  14. A participant in the Burning Man festival.

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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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