Meaning of Burner | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A participant in the Burning Man festival.
2. Someone or something that burns.
3. An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.
4. A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
5. A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
6. A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.
7. A device that records data or music to an optical disc, such as a CD-R or DVD-RW.
8. 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
9. An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
10. Ellipsis of burner account.
    Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang
11. An elaborate piece of graffiti.
    slang
12. A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
    slang
13. A gun.
    slang
14. Ellipsis of coal burner (“a nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang
15. Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”).
    alt-of, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“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"”

“No one on the corner has swagger like us / Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless”

“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.”

“[…] 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.”

“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.”

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