A fork of Rural Dictionary
Someone who was really popular in high school and college and spent those years as well as ages 21-29 partying, smoking weed and doing other drugs (including drinking a lot), having sex and hooking up, but after age 30 is a total asshole with a bad job, legal issues, health problems, and is usually not married or ever has a family. In other words, a burnout is what happens later in life to age 14-29 punk-ass guys and age 14-29 slut girls.
I am 15 years old and would much rather prefer being average or not popular in high school and college yet grow up to have a successful job and a good family instead of being really popular and the life of the party now yet becoming a total shithead or burnout later in adulthood.
When the driver of a rear wheel drive vehicle decides to show off the torque of his engine by breaking the rear tires' traction with the ground and spinning them in place, by holding the brakes, usually for the purpose of making a large cloud of smoke. Also referred to as brakestand and roastin' 'em. This is also how drag vehicles on slicks gain additional traction, the burnout heats the tires up and this causes them to bite into the pavement harder. Users of street tires will not notice any major benefit, so this is useless to streetcars.
Another variant uses no brake application, it is done by drivers of less powerful RWD cars that would otherwise stall. Sometimes called a one-wheel peel, because only one wheel spins. Front wheel drive vehicles do this version because they are, um, FWD, and can't brakestand. This is typically called a peelout instead of a burnout, but some powerful muscle cars can successfully do a proper, smokey burnout while moving forward.
Vehicles with rims over 25" in diameter may not posess enough torque to burn out without breaking something. This means those of you with Donk'ed out vehicles need not apply. Rims with thin spokes and large diameters are too weak to take the stresses and their hubs may rip out. They may also bend and/or otherwise be damaged.
The only real legit time to do it on the street is if the vehicle is spinning out, and only to prevent the engine from taking damage when being spun backwards and to scrub off some speed, lessening the severity and chances of an impact.
Ricers have been known to attempt a 'brakestand' by using their parking brake to hold the car still. While this has the same effect, it isn't a true brakestand.
Man, that old truck ain't as shitty as I thought it was. Did you see that massive burnout it did? It's only got a six cylinder too...Damn, man.
Heh, that Ricer just attempted a burnout. Silly FWD.
I like this car. When you burn out, the smoke comes from the correct end of the car.
That burnout fails horribly. One wheel peels suck balls!
When a guy proceeds to take a messy shit without wiping his knot and titty fucks a chick via entering in from the top, leaving a nice greasy skid down her face.
Brad hit his old lady with The Burnout last night. It took steel wool to get the shit off of the tip of her nose and chin.
the main purpose of having automobiles, that involves using the brakes of the car to hold it still while the driven wheels turn at high speed to produce copious smoke and also cause the car to exhibit handling characteristics such as a sliding rear end which make driving it very fun
That bogan did so many burnouts in his Commodore that he broke his diff
Next-day after curry anal effects on someone not used to spicy food.
It burns as it comes out
Shouldn't have had the vindaloo last night had a burnout this morning
The guy you sit next to in class who's killed so many brain cells with drugs that he has to ask "Dude, where am I?" every five minutes. A burnout is a stoner who didn't stop until every last brain cell was fried, and even though every brain cell is now fried, is still smoking at least five blunts a day.
Burnout: "Dude, where am I and why is everyone being so quiet?"
normal person:"This is your brother's funeral"
burnout:"Ah man, that sucks. Wait, I had a brother?"
normal person"Yeah"
burnout:"Woah, that's crazy! Wait-did you know that when I hit myself in the head it sounds like it's hollow?"
normal person: "Why am I not surprised?"