Burn

UK prison slang for tobacco (although smoking is no longer allowed in UK prisons)

Got any burn bruv?

Yeah man, I'll sort you a pouch, you owe me two next week

by Heyyyyyyyyy March 8, 2023

Tear Burn

when your tears feel like acid and burn your eyes. Its mostly caused by yawning

My own tears are making my eyes feel like they are burning. The tear burn is real

by pringlesleaf August 21, 2019

burns

A loving person and someone fun to be around

Ms . burns had her whole class laughing at the filltrip .

by zairh September 9, 2020

Burning the midnight owl

When you do stay up way too late and do Duolingo lessons. This can refer to you doing too many lessons and staying up late as a consequence or doing lessons only moments before midnight.

Person A: Why is Jenny on her phone at the party?
Person B: It's almost midnight abd she doesn't wanna lose her streak. She's burning the midnight owl.

Person C: Why are you still awake at 3 am?
Person D: I got hung up on my Doulingo lessons. You know, burning that midnight owl.

by Momma Sunshine April 18, 2024

burn one's eyebrows

To study or prepare for an exam really hard.

This idiom is referring to how students, before electricity, focused too hard to notice that their brows are too close to the candlelight. Commonly used in the Philippines.

She's been burning her eyebrows since last week for the test.

What does it mean to burn one's eyebrows?

I meant she's studying super hard.

by fares47 May 29, 2023

west-burn

An epic fail on the slopes in Western Canada/Rocky Mountains.

What a wipeout - he totally west-burned that one.

by spazzy26 February 4, 2010

double burn

The feeling one gets when eating high quality spicy foods. The burning flavor is sensed by the taste receptors of both the mouth, and anus.

After eating at the fancy Thai place, Jimmy had to go out for ice cream that night. The double burn was so powerful he had to sit on an ice pack the next day.

by Ultracaffeine July 1, 2022