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burn pavement

burn pavement verb: to drive on pavement at high speed.

Verb

burn pavement (third-person singular simple present burns pavement, present participle burning pavement, simple past and past participle burned pavement or burnt pavement)

  1. (slang) To drive on pavement at high speed.
    • 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.2001, Xan Nowakowski, Final Days: Poems and Prose for the Adolescent Apocalypse, page 81
    • As I was packaging what remained of the dead baby, the man I would kill was burning pavement north toward Charlotte.2003, Kathy Reichs, Bare Bones, →ISBN, page 1

Forms of burn pavement

third-person singular presentburns pavement
present participleburning pavement
past participleburned pavement
pastburned pavement
past participleburnt pavement
pastburnt pavement

Questions about burn pavement

What does burn pavement mean?
Burn pavement means to drive on pavement at high speed.
What part of speech is burn pavement?
Burn pavement is a verb.
What is the past tense of burn pavement?
The past tense of burn pavement is burned pavement.

Words near burn pavement in the dictionary

  1. burn one's candle at both ends
  2. burn one's fingers
  3. burn one's toast
  4. burn out
  5. burn outs
  6. burn pavement
  7. burn phone
  8. burn phones
  9. burn pit
  10. burn pits
  11. burn rate

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