burn pavement
verb1
Slang To drive on pavement at high speed.
- 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:
1 more example
- 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:
- Related terms
- burn rubber