burner
/ˈbɝnɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.54 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn.
noun
Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn.
noun
Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn.
noun
Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn.
noun
Ellipsis of burner phone, a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.
Slang
noun
An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
Example Sentences
- "She lit a burner on the stove / And offered me a pipe / "I thought you'd never say hello", she said / "You look like the silent type""
- "No one on the corner has swagger like us / Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless"
- "Internet sleuths later discovered that the username, @SO_blessed1, appeared to be a burner belonging to the Twitter user Incarcerated Bob, who had long been spreading false information."
- "[…] we were doing productions, burners like 100 feet long and as tall as we could get, standing on people's shoulders, […]"
- "There is a hierarchy of sorts: a throw-up can go over a tag, a piece over a throw-up, and a burner over a piece."
- "In Mississippi, Tom turned an encampment of do-gooder burners into an organization he dubbed Burners Without Borders."
Etymology
From burn + -er. Merged with and eclipsed related Middle English brennar, brennere (“an incendiary, incinerator”). Compare German Brenner (“burner”), Swedish brännare (“burner”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbɝnɚ/
- British English: /ˈbɜːnə/