v.
To purchase an audio CD, make a copy of it using a CD burner, and then return the original CD for a refund.
Example Citation:
"Then there's Greg, a decade older, who swallows albums whole. He's a 'burn-and-return' artist, which means that he goes every once in a while to his local HMV shop in Toronto to buy 10 or 15 CDs. He brings them home, copies them and then takes them back to the store to take advantage of its 'hassle-free' returns policy."
—Murray Campbell, "The CD is dead. Long live the CD," The Globe and Mail, June 2, 2001
—Murray Campbell, "The CD is dead. Long live the CD," The Globe and Mail, June 2, 2001
Notes:
In this context, the verb to burn means "to write data to a blank CD." It comes from the fact that writable CD drives use the heat from a laser to etch small pits in the disc's surface to represent the individual bits of data. I traced this form of the verb back to 1993:
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