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burner

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Noun

  1. Someone or something that burns.
  2. An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.
  3. A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
  4. A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
  5. A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.
  6. A device that allows data or music to be stored on a CDR or CD-ROM.
  7. Ellipsis of burner phone, a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.
  8. An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
  9. Ellipsis of burner account.
  10. An elaborate piece of graffiti.
  11. A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
  12. A gun.
  13. Ellipsis of coal burner (“a nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men”).
  14. Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”).
  15. A participant in the Burning Man festival.

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