burner
n.— «In another seizure, police recovered a crude, handwritten drug-trade manual from a PCP ring.…It listed the “workers” and the “deliverers,” assigning beepers, walkie-talkies, police scanners and “burners” (guns) to them.» —“A Drug-Selling Machine That Was All Business” by Sari Horwitz Washington Post Apr. 24, 1988. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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