Meaning of burn pavement | Babel Free

Definitions

To drive on pavement at high speed.

slang

Examples

“We burned the air that night as you burned pavement in faux drag racing, me struggling to keep my jaw from slackening as I discovered that you shared my artistic vision, indeed my whole world view.”

“As I was packaging what remained of the dead baby, the man I would kill was burning pavement north toward Charlotte.”

“The third car hit its lights and a peculiar-sounding siren and began to burn pavement toward them.”

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