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burning pavement

burning pavement is the present participle and gerund of burn pavement.

Meaning of burn pavement

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

Questions about burning pavement

What is burning pavement the present participle and gerund of?
Burning pavement is the present participle and gerund of burn pavement.

Words near burning pavement in the dictionary

  1. burning one down
  2. burning one's boats
  3. burning one's bridges
  4. burning one's toast
  5. burning out
  6. burning pavement
  7. burning plasma
  8. burning plasmas
  9. burning question
  10. burning questions
  11. burning rubber

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