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barnburner
has definitions from the fields of law,criminal law
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[ noun ] (law,criminal law) someone who burns down a barn
Used in print (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)If the barn-burner 's family produces a Flem_Snopes , who personifies commercialism and materialism in hyperbolic crassness , the Compson family produces a Jason_Compson 4 , . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (informal) a impressively successful event
Examples "the rock concert was a real barnburner" Related terms |
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