Barnburner

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Informal An extremely impressive event or successful outcome: "September will not be any barnburner [for car sales]” ( Lee Iacocca).
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  • n. An extremely exciting or successful event or person.
  • n. One who burns down a barn.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York, about the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; -- opposed to Hunker.
  • n. an impressively successful or unusually good event.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A member of the more progressive of the two factions into which the Democratic party in the State of New York was long divided, the other faction being called the Hunkers.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an impressively successful event
  • n. someone who burns down a barn
    • Antonym
    hunker   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    success    firebug    incendiary    arsonist   
    Cross Reference
    cliffhanger   
     
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