burn

1. n. a cigarette.

□ Gimme a burn, huh?

□ Fred just stood there with a burn on his lower lip and his hands in his pockets.

2. tv. to smoke a cigarette.

□ I need to burn a fag. Just a minute.

□ This nicotine fiend needs to burn one for a fix!

3. tv. to smoke cannabis. (Drugs.)

□ Jim spent Saturday out in the field burning grass.

□ The two of them sat there burning reefers for hours on end.

4. tv. to execute someone in the electric chair. (Underworld.)

□ I’ll see that they burn you for this!

□ The DA tried to burn me, but I got off with six months.

5. in. to die by electrocution in the electric chair. (Underworld.)

□ I ain’t afraid I’ll burn, copper!

□ I’ll see that you burn for this.

6. tv. to cheat or rob someone.

□ Tom tried to burn me by selling me a bum watch, but I’m too clever.

□ He will burn you if you’re not careful.

7. tv. to shoot someone. (Underworld.)

□ He burned the guy with a pistol, but it didn’t stop him.

□ Hold it! I’ve burned one guy tonight, and I ain’t afraid of puttin a hole through you.

8. n. a deception; an instance of being cheated.

□ Man, that was a burn. That guy was really mad.

□ We pulled off the burn with- ut a hitch. It was a gas.

9. n. the charge or rush after the injection of a drug into a vein. (Drugs.)

□ Man, wait’ll you taste the burn from this stuff.

□ I don’t want a big burn; just drag it out for about an hour. 1

0. tv. to cook food.

□ Why don’t you burn some chow for me?

□ Burn your own stuff you lazy good-for-nothing man!