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burns pavement

burns pavement is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 burns pavement

What is burns pavement the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Burns pavement is the third-person singular simple present indicative of burn pavement.

Words near burns pavement in the dictionary

  1. burns one's boats
  2. burns one's bridges
  3. burns one's fingers
  4. burns one's toast
  5. burns out
  6. burns pavement
  7. burns rubber
  8. burns someone at the stake
  9. burns someone's ass
  10. burns someone's ears
  11. Burns stanza

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