Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. infected with venereal disease [note 18C naval joke, to be sent out a sacrifice and come home a burnt offering, to be sent off to fight for the Navy, but to return carrying venereal disease; 20C use appears to be US only].

1654		E. Gayton Pleasant Notes IV xx 268: Gillians a burnt taile, or Will with the wispe.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Burnt, Poxt, or swingingly Clapt.
1725		New Canting Dict.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Burnt. Poxed or clapped. He was sent out a sacrifice, and came home a burnt offering; a saying of seamen who have caught the venereal disease abroad.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1832		Satirist (London) 8 Jan. 13/2: [T]he smoke arising from burnt bones and hoofs, or any kind of horn, operates effectually in preventing the spread of contagious disease,.
1842		Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 15 Oct. n.p.: the whip wants to knowHow that young man [...] is since he got burnt at Suse Bryant’s [brothel]. You must get something stronger than camphine to draw the fire out .
1851		Life in Boston & N.Y. (Boston, MA) 4 Jan. n.p.: Little James G— [...] got burnt by Ab.
1939		D. Maurer ‘Prostitutes and Criminal Argots’ in Lang. Und. (1981) 116/1: burnt. Having contracted any venereal disease.
1941		‘Digg Mee’ ‘Observation Post’ in N.Y. Age 22 Nov. 9/6: [of someone suffering a STD] Just ask the doc. For a while, my lad’s in hock ( [...] you can’t play with fire without being burned).
1971		Winick & Kinsie Lively Commerce 43: ‘She is burned up’ (has venereal disease).
2004		Simon & Burns ‘Time After Time’ Wire ser. 3 ep. 1 [TV script] No matter how many times you get burned, man, you just keep on doin’ the same. Nigger do not learn.
2006		Burns & Corthron ‘Know Your Place’ Wire ser. 4 ep. 9 [TV script] ‘You got laid yet?’ ‘I think I already been burnt. Shit, I might need a ride the clinic today.°.

2. (drugs) of people, having been sold bad, adulterated or fake drugs.

1992		J. Mowry Way Past Cool 62: They just stopped a lot [...] at the hands of their own burned customers.
2015		67 ‘Live Corn’ 🎵 Live corn in my gun / Fuck with the 6 get bun.

3. (US prison) in trouble.

2002

J. Lerner You Got Nothing Coming 105: Got no cup, you’re fucking burnt! You got nothin’ comin’.

4. destroyed, defeated.

1999

Indep. on Sun. Culture 12 Dec. 4: Your relationship is burned: just pack up, ship out, find a place of your own.

5. exposed, recognized.

1970		J. Wambaugh New Centurions 197: It’s no use, I’m burned here.
1977		B. Davidson Collura (1978) 62: He was ‘burned’ – but good.