barn burner
noun
: one that arouses much interest or excitement
the game should be a real barn burner
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The game should be a real barn burner.
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Buzzer-beaters While the Aztecs were taking care of business, New Mexico was sweating out another Mountain West barn burner.
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Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
Our job is to cover the immediate past in full, living color, whether the contest is a barn burner or a rout.
—Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
Thankfully for fans, Godwin and his slammin' band had rolled through touching ballads and barn burners before the show was stopped by event organizers.
—Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 16 June 2024
At another Trump barn burner, the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson digressed into a lengthy pornographic reverie about a father spanking his daughter.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
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Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
Our job is to cover the immediate past in full, living color, whether the contest is a barn burner or a rout.
—Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
Thankfully for fans, Godwin and his slammin' band had rolled through touching ballads and barn burners before the show was stopped by event organizers.
—Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 16 June 2024
At another Trump barn burner, the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson digressed into a lengthy pornographic reverie about a father spanking his daughter.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for barn burner
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“Barn burner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barn%20burner. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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