burner n.2
1. (US) a cheap cigar.
 | Walk Hard, Talk Loud 82: ‘They tell me you pick up ritzy cigar bands and stick them on five for a dime burners.’ [...] ‘So you think I’m a piker?’. |
2. (US) a pipe.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Smokers’ Sl.’ in AS XV:3 Oct. 335/2: A pipe is a [...] burner. |
3. (UK/US Und.) an expert in the use of an oxy-acetylene torch.
| ‘I Was King of the Safecrackers’ in Hamilton Men of the Und. 140: We were going to need burners for the big stuff. | |
| et al. DAUL 37/1: Burner. [...] 2. A safe-cracker who uses an oxy-acetylene torch. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Inside the Und. 35: The job was a good one [...] needing skilled burners. |
4. an embarrassment [one’s cheeks ‘burn’].
| Mad mag. Apr.–May 10: I [sic] just so happens that my true identity is Clark Bent ... man assistant to the copy boy! Whata [sic] burner on you, huh! |
5. (US gay) a cigarette.
| Queens’ Vernacular. |
6. (US black/teen) a large piece of graffiti, usu. involving many colours [one ‘burns’ it onto the wall and/or it glows with colour].
| Westsiders 367: He caught sight of a beautiful ‘burner’ down on the drab concrete walls [...] A ‘burner’ is the taggers’ name for one of those big, 15-foot-long works of art. | |
| Fortress of Solitude 134: These colors are the necessities for throwing up a burner, a top-to-bottom masterpiece of flaming 3-D letters. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
see under cook v.1
to go mad.
| Gal’s Gossip 97: When I first heard [...] that Laodamia had won, I thought I should go fairly off my burner for very joy! |