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burnt pavement

burnt pavement is the simple past and past participle 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 burnt pavement

What is burnt pavement the simple past and past participle of?
Burnt pavement is the simple past and past participle of burn pavement.

Words near burnt pavement in the dictionary

  1. burnt one's fingers
  2. burnt one's toast
  3. burnt orange
  4. burnt oranges
  5. burnt out
  6. burnt pavement
  7. Burnt Pine
  8. Burnt Ranch
  9. burnt rubber
  10. burnt run
  11. burnt sienna

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