scorchers

Because this city is home now, except at Christmas and those days of July and August when the heat creeps to eighty, the BBC weathermen complain of "scorchers," and he longs for the humid Jersey Shore summers leavened by that breeze off the water.

Excerpt: Snapshots by William Norris 2001

This company manufactures three seed 'scorchers' which may be built into a hearth and heated by firewood or oil.

Chapter 9 1995

Scorchers were riders who wanted to go fast, and bicycles were advertised by manufacturers as 'scorchers'.

Quickrelease.tv Carlton Reid 2010

Rizo and her Assettes belt out interpretations of classic scorchers and pop tunes alike.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: La Bete, A Life in the Theater, Lady Rizo Fern Siegel 2010

Rizo and her Assettes belt out interpretations of classic scorchers and pop tunes alike.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: La Bete, A Life in the Theater, Lady Rizo Fern Siegel 2010

Rizo and her Assettes belt out interpretations of classic scorchers and pop tunes alike.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: La Bete, A Life in the Theater, Lady Rizo Fern Siegel 2010

When the act was jettisoned, speeds increased, automobilists demanded better road surfaces to go even faster on, and "scorchers" and "road hogs", terms first used against cyclists, took over the roads.

19th century cyclists paved the way for modern motorists' roads | Carlton Reid 2011

Rizo and her Assettes belt out interpretations of classic scorchers and pop tunes alike.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: La Bete, A Life in the Theater, Lady Rizo Fern Siegel 2010

Rizo and her Assettes belt out interpretations of classic scorchers and pop tunes alike.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: La Bete, A Life in the Theater, Lady Rizo Fern Siegel 2010

Even though we often experience scorchers this time of year, the cool downs that are intermixed start taking on a real fall flavor.

A pleasant August weekend in D.C. 2010