burn pavement

present singular third person burns pavement · participle present burning pavement · participle past burned pavement · past burned pavement · participle past burnt pavement · past burnt pavement

1. slangTo drive on pavement at high speed.

   The third car hit its lights and a peculiar-sounding siren and began to burn pavement toward them.

   2014, Don Pendleton, Terror Ballot, →ISBN, page 293

   2 more examples

   We burned the air that night as you burned pavement in faux drag racing, me struggling to keep my jaw from slackening as I discovered that you shared my artistic vision, indeed my whole world view.

   2001, Xan Nowakowski, Final Days: Poems and Prose for the Adolescent Apocalypse, page 81

   As I was packaging what remained of the dead baby, the man I would kill was burning pavement north toward Charlotte.

   2003, Kathy Reichs, Bare Bones, →ISBN, page 1