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barnburner
noun- an exciting idea, event or thing US, 1934
- All the Dub Hotchkisses looked at him with admiration bordering on awe. “A barn-burner!” said one. — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 185, 1957
- a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police CANADA
From an unfortunate miscalculation of force in the 1970s that led to the burning of a barn where separatists met with American Black Panthers. - — Maledicta, p. 182, 1979: “Canadian slurs, ethnic and other”
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