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burn
verb- to put someone to death by electrocution US, 1927
- [T]hese mouthpieces finally made a deal with the D.A. for Mackey to plead guilty to manslaughter or something like that, and Mackey was ready to do it because at least it meant he wouldn’t burn. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 268, 1946
- “Listen, rat”–Benny’s face paled–“one more word like that and I’ll plug you too. They can only burn me once, and I’d just as soon knock you off to stay alive as not.” — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 85, 1947
- And if I burn for it, here or anywhere, at least I won’t burn like a slave. — Thurston Scott, Cure it with Honey, p. 37, 1951
- We ain’t going to let her die, get me? Not this way. I’m going to see that she burns. — Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside, p. 54, 1952
- He said, “Forgive this man, he knows not what he did.” / I said, “Can that shit, Father, don’t let them burn the kid.” — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 120, 1976
- to kill someone US, 1933
- Do you really want to burn this cat, man? — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 176, 1965
- The guy who burned the gook gunner was saved by a misfire. — Ernest Spencer, Welcome to Vietnam, Macho Man, p. 141, 1987
- to shoot a gun at someone, either just grazing them or making them jump to avoid being hit US
- — Dale Kramer and Madeline Karr, Teen-Age Gangs, p. 174, 1953
- Then the Wolves start burnin’. One of them got a piece. He fire 2 times[.] — Warren Miller, The Cool World, p. 231, 1959
- to cheat, swindle someone UK, 1698
- I drank all day in a wild poolhall-bar-restaurant-saloon two-part joint, also got burned for a fin (Mexican, 5 pesos, 60 cents) by a connection. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal and Carolyn Cassady, p. 359, 10 May 1952
- He even cut me into the good drygoods thieves, so that I would never get burned by fences. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 167, 1965
- Hawaiian Chuck was handing out hepatitis-infected points to friends who’d burned him. — Nicholas Von Hoffman, We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against, p. 83, 1967
- It is alright to burn one’s victims as long as they can be referred to as marks, but never–never–burn the guy you work with and who is your partner. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 138, 1980
- He probably got burned trying to make a drug buy and did have to run for his life. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 301, 1993
- to put someone under an unfair obligation UK
- Kings an’ Baba get burned for the whole fee cos of course they wanna look flush in front of everybody. — Nick Barlay, Curvy Lovebox, p. 101, 1997
- to expose the identity of a person or place US, 1959
- He didn’t want any dopefiends burning up his house, even though he paid off the vice squad monthly to allow him to operate. — Donald Goines, Dopefiend, p. 37, 1971
- PARK SWEEP “BURNS” L.A. GAYS — The Advocate, 24 October 1973
- “They’d burn me the minute I came inna door.” — George Higgins, Cogan’s Trade, p. 38, 1974
- He said I burned one of his sources. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 201, 1986
- to completely cover another graffiti artist’s work with your own US
- I burn my name up all over the hood. — A2Z, p. 15, 1995
- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 140, 1997
- in private dice games, to stop the dice while rolling, either as a superstition or to check for cheating US
- — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 122, May 1950
- while playing blackjack, to place an unplayed card into the discard card holder US
- — Thomas F. Hughes, Dealing Casino Blackjack, p. 71, 1982
- to smoke marijuana US, 1964
- — Home Office, DSUE8, 1970s
- Hey, man, Pickford’s got a dube we’re about to burn. — Dazed and Confused, 1993
- I hate standing around when everyone’s burning and I ain’t got none[.] — Two Fingers, Puff (Disco Biscuits), p. 220, 1996
- to infect someone with a sexually transmitted disease US
- — Dale Gordon, The Dominion Sex Dictionary, p. 35, 1967
- — Don R. McCreary (Editor), Dawg Speak, 2001
- to masturbate US
- BURN. To masturbate while looking at a provocative picture of a woman. — Miguel Pinero, Short Eyes, p. 123, 1975
▶ burn an Indian
to smoke marijuana US- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 51, 1992
▶ burn logs
to smoke marijuana UK, 2001
▶ burn paint
(used of a car or truck) to be engulfed in flames US- — Bill Davis, Jawjacking, p. 24, 1977
▶ burn the breeze
to drive fast US- — Montie Tak, Truck Talk, p. 23, 1971
▶ burn the lot
(used of a carnival) to cheat a town so badly that no carnival will be able to come to that town for some time US- — Lindsay E. Smith and Bruce A. Walstad, Sting Shift, p. 115, 1989
▶ burn the main line
to inject a drug intravenously UK, 1998- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 290, 2003
▶ burn the road up
to leave US- — Gary K. Farlow, Prison-ese, p. 9, 2002
▶ burn the yellow
to race through a yellow traffic light CANADA
Used in Montreal, translated and borrowed from the French.- — Lewis Poteet, Car & Motorcyle Slang, p. 42, 1992
▶ burn up the wires
to spend a great deal of time on the telephone US
Originally a term applying to the telegraph. As telephones become increasingly independent of wires, it will be interesting to see if the phrase survives.- — Joseph A. Weingarten, An American Dictionary of Slang, p. 50, 1954
- Meanwhile, the White House was burning up the wires to Wall Street. — Eliot Janeway, The Economics of Crisis, p. 268, 1968
▶ burn your butt
to annoy, to irritate you US- I’ve always sung the praises of lobsters, and it really burns my butt when people drop ’em in a pot of boiling water. — The Observer, 9 December 2001
▶ enough money to burn a wet mule
a great deal of money US, 1895
Slang synonyms for “money” are found in variants of the phrase.- I also got enough bread to burn a wet mule. — Babs Gonazles, Movin’ On Down De Line, p. 27, 1975
- As Mr. Barbour is fond of saying in such circumstances, the GOP had “enough cash to burn a wet mule.” — Washington Times, 16 January 1997
- “We got enough money to burn a wet mule,” Big Bill said. — Bill Fitzhugh, Fender Benders, p. 267, 2003
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