Back burn

To give yourself more shit than others around you. You're in control of the level of torment others give you. Just like a bushfire, a well executed backburn helps contain out of control fires! So to does backburning yourself during a conversation, It helps prevent more shit giving from mates.

Person 1: what's with the pink shirt? You look gay as fuck!
Person 2: well, I love dick
Person 1: haha...you fuckhead

Person 2 has successfully back burned to prevent Person 1 giving more shit!

by Dosep December 26, 2018

back burner

1) Custom of placing pots not requiring immediate attention toward the rear of the stove 2) A condition of low priority or temporary deferment 3) Where one resides when they are hearing bs in hopes of maintaining the status quo of a "relationship" that serves to keep the fires lit for the IO part of the equation

It's so sad how Sal doesn't realize shes placed on the back burner. Hal has no intention of making her his one and only.

by Shyantha January 1, 2007

on the back burner

Postponed or deferred, as in a low-priority task.

It wasn't April 15th yet so I put the taxes on the back burner.

by The Aloha Overlord March 22, 2014

back burner

When something is put aside for more important things.

We can't go on that vacation boo, we can't afford it. We'll just put it on the back burner for now.

by Dialect of Mecca August 23, 2004

Back-burner Bitch

When a girl tries to make a guy continue liking her while she’s in a relationship so that if she breaks up with her significant other she can go straight to dating her Back-Burner Bitch. Usually the Back-Burner Bitch never ends up dating them, and is used only for attention.

The girl got mad when Daine stopped liking her after Daine realized she was immature and only using him as a Back-Burner Bitch.

by Everything sucks January 17, 2018

Back Burner Bitch

A bitch you keep around to talk to when your girlfriend is mad at you.

J :Yo are you still fucking with Larissa?
P: Nah she's just my back burner bitch.

by MarleyBarbie0420 January 11, 2017

Put on the back burner

What guys or girls do to people they're undecided about by stringing them along making occasional contact but not consistently acting interested.

I knew I was put on the back burner when he asked me out for the following weekend, then seemed confused when I called a few days later to confirm.

by Sarcastic Cynic August 19, 2011