Grillers : v. tr. and intr. Do cook, to roast on the grill.
Grilling a cigarette.
(S ') to grill one: smoke.
Sunbathe.
To grill: to sunbathe (Quebec).
Being arrested by the police.
To grill someone: to denounce him, to overtake, to supplant (a competitor).
Running a red light: go through it without stopping (see below).
It is toasted: unveiled.
To grill: to make a marital infidelity. I toasted my wife last night.
To grill: to be arrested, to be put in prison. The windows of the prison post are lined with grilles.
To grill (near): discredited, damage his reputation.
Put out of use by a short-circuit or by an excessively intense current: burn out the motor of an electrical appliance; change a burnt out bulb.
To grill: to be caught in the act.
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The expression "Grill / burn a red light": Pass a traffic light which is red.
Le fire, here, is not one of those which are used to grill, but of those which are used to signal something; in particular this traffic light, which, if it is red, indicates to you that you are not allowed to pass.
In chronological order, it was at the beginning of the XNUMXth century that the verb burn takes figuratively the meaning of "pass without stopping (at a planned stopping point)" as in skip step.
Then, as of burn to grill, there is only one step, it is at the beginning of the XNUMXth century that the verb Grill, among its many metaphorical and slang uses (such as "to deceive", "to denounce", "to compromise", "to annihilate" or "to spoil"), means first of all "to overtake (a vehicle)" then, by amalgamation with the figurative sense of to burn, "Go beyond without stopping" meaning that we find in our expression.