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Noun: barnburner  'barn,bur-nur
Usage: N. Amer
  1. An impressively successful event
    "the rock concert was a real barnburner"
     
  2. Someone who burns down a barn
    "The police suspected the disgruntled farmhand of being a barnburner"

Derived forms: barnburners

Type of: arsonist, firebug [informal], fire-raiser [Brit], incendiary, success

Encyclopedia: Barnburner