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Definition of burn rubber

burn rubber

verb - intransitive

  • to accelerate quickly in an automobile, such that the tires don't get traction with the ground and spin freely.

    Last edited on Jan 28 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.

  • to leave quickly.

    Last edited on Jan 28 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.

  • to go somewhere quickly.
                                                                                                                

                                                                                                               

    Citation from "Gone", Lie To Me (TV), Season 3 Episode 11 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on Jan 28 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jan 28 2011.

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Other terms relating to 'to go, leave, exit':

Definitions include: to walk.
Definitions include: leaving, often quickly.
Definitions include: to leave.
Definitions include: to hurry, hustle, esp. when departing.
Definitions include: to leave.
Definitions include: to leave quickly; sometimes referring to leaving as a negative action.
Definitions include: to leave quickly.
Definitions include: to be of poor quality, displeasing.
Definitions include: a female.
Definitions include: see Audi 5000.
Definitions include: to vomit
Definitions include: to leave.
Definitions include: to leave.
Definitions include: to leave.
Definitions include: to leave.

Other terms relating to 'vehicles (related to)':

Definitions include: to wreck a vehicle such that repairs would cost more than the value of the (unwrecked) vehicle.
Definitions include: to attempt to maximize gas mileage by making fuel-conserving adjustments to one's car and one's driving techniques.
Definitions include: lighting underneath the body of a car, which shines on the ground.
Definitions include: wheel rims that are 20 inches in diameter.
Definitions include: a skid mark made by tires, usually one's car.
Definitions include: wheel rims that are 24 inches in diameter.
Definitions include: a person who must travel in the trunk of a car because there are no seats left.
Definitions include: a mechanic, originally on motorcycles, but now any kind of repairman.
Definitions include: a traffic jam.
Definitions include: An abnormally large exhaust tip, typically chrome, which is intended to convince people the installed vehicle has a professional-level racing exhaust.
Definitions include: of a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine, to travel at a decent rate of speed and to have the engine making a nice sound.
Definitions include: see outie.
Definitions include: a parking spot very close to one's destination.
Definitions include: heroin.
Definitions include: the seat behind the passenger seat in a vehicle.

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Other terms relating to 'burn':

Definitions include: acronym for "burned out old fart".
Definitions include: to smoke marijuana.
Definitions include: to ruin a relationship.
Definitions include: to defecate. Implies a very pungent and smelly bowel movement.
Definitions include: a male pot-head.
Definitions include: See burn a bridge.
Definitions include: having smoked so much marijuana that a person is slow, dumb, or act like they are under the influence when they aren't.
Definitions include: permanently impaired from drug abuse.
Definitions include: in business jargon, a major crisis.
Definitions include: to engage in foreplay in which both (or all) participants keep their clothes on and "grind" sexually against each other.
Definitions include: to engage in foreplay in which both (or all) participants keep their clothes on and "grind" sexually against each other.
Definitions include: a notice from an intelligence agency saying that a person is unreliable.
Definitions include: a person who has ingested such a large quantity of drugs (often over an extended period of time)
Definitions include: gonorrhea.
Definitions include: See burn a bridge.

Other terms relating to 'rubber':

Definitions include: used to describe something or someone that is boring and/or uneventful.
Definitions include: to accelerate quickly in an automobile, such that the tires don't get traction with the ground and spin freely.
Definitions include: a condom.
Definitions include: a check written without sufficient funds to cover it.
Definitions include: nickname for Akron, Ohio.
Definitions include: the "bypassing" of encryption via beating a person with a rubber hose until they provide their password.
Definitions include: to approve without debate or significant thought.
Definitions include: an insult or retort to an insult.
Definitions include: a placeholder name for a remote, unhip location.

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