burner

noun13

1. •
   Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn.
2. •
   An element on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop that generates localized heat for cooking.

   • She lit a burner on the stove / And offered me a pipe / "I thought you'd never say hello", she said / "You look like the silent type" — 1975
3. •
   A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
4. •
   A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
5. •
   A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.
6. •
   An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
7. •
   (slang) Ellipsis of burner phone, a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.

   • No one on the corner has swagger like us / Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless — 2007
8. •
   (Internet, slang) Ellipsis of burner account.

   • Internet sleuths later discovered that the username, @SO_blessed1, appeared to be a burner belonging to the Twitter user Incarcerated Bob, who had long been spreading false information. — 2021
9. •
   A device that records data or music to an optical disc, such as a CD-R or DVD-RW.
10. •
    (slang) An elaborate piece of graffiti.

    • […] we were doing productions, burners like 100 feet long and as tall as we could get, standing on people's shoulders, […] — 2011
11. •
    (slang) A handgun.
12. •
    (slang) A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
13. •
    (slang) Ellipsis of coal burner (“a nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men”).

noun1

1. •
   A participant in the Burning Man festival.