burn pavement

English

Verb

burn pavement (third-person singular simple present burns pavement, present participle burning pavement, simple past and past participle burned pavement or burnt pavement)

1. (slang) To drive on pavement at high speed.
   • 2001, Xan Nowakowski, Final Days: Poems and Prose for the Adolescent Apocalypse, page 81:

     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.

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

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

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

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

See also

• burn rubber