Usually means: Intense, exciting, and fiercely competitive.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word barnburner:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. barnburner: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. barnburner: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. barnburner: Vocabulary.com
  4. Barnburner, barnburner: Wordnik
  5. Barnburner, barnburner: Wiktionary
  6. barnburner: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. barnburner: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Barnburner, barnburner: Dictionary.com
  9. barnburner: Rhymezone
  10. barnburner: FreeDictionary.org
  11. barnburner: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. Barnburner: The Word Detective
  13. barnburner: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. barnburner: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. barnburner: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See barnburners as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Barnburner)

noun:  (Midland US, idiomatic) A sensationally exciting or successful event or person.
noun:  (slang, chiefly Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland) A strike-anywhere match.
noun:  (literal) One who burns down a barn.
noun:  (historical, US politics, slang) A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York, around 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.

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