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burn down verb- to overuse and thus ruin something US
- I’ve about burned down all the pawnshops in New York. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 60, 1953
- Three junkies say that there have been a sharply increased number of sick junkies unable to support their habits at former levels, trying to taper off on such things as Cocinil, and hitting so often that somes stores have been totally “burned down,” i.e. refuse to supply even non-prescription items to known junkies. — Ned Polsky, Hustlers, Beats, and Others, p. 168, 1967
- to shoot and kill someone US, 1932
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 37, 1950
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