barnstormer
nounEtymology From barnstorm + -er.
1
One who barnstorms.
- Also a prince's cook; and even the water-carrier of that sublime lord of lords and king of kings, the Governor-General of India! How broad they were in their tastes! They also murdered actors—poor wandering barnstormers.1897, Mark Twain, chapter XLVI, in Following the Equator […] , New York: American Publishing Company:
- “Craig’s final film as the diva of British intelligence is an epic barnstormer, […]2021 September 28, Stephanie Goodman, “‘No Time to Die’: What the Critics Are Saying”, in The New York Times:
- Related terms
- barnburner