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barnstorm
Alternative clues for the word barnstorm
Word definitions for barnstorm in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barnstorm \Barn"storm`\, v. i. & t. [Barn + storm, v.] To travel from place to place, making brief stops. To fly an airplane from place to place, usually at small airports, doing flying stunts or flying passengers for sightseeing, for the purpose of earning ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1815, in reference to a theatrical troupe's performances in upstate New York barns (usually featuring short action pieces to suit vulgar tastes); extended 1896 to electioneering, 1928 to itinerant airplane pilots who performed stunts at fairs and races. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He goes barnstorming, first on a shoestring. ▪ He took his teams on barnstorming tours, once selling out Yankee Stadium four consecutive years. ▪ If they are right, then Clinton, barnstorming to the end and almost hoarse, should ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In athletics terminology, barnstorming refers to sports teams or individual athletes that travel to various locations, usually small towns, to stage exhibition matches. Barnstorming teams differ from traveling teams in that they operate outside the framework ...
Usage examples of barnstorm.
Goodman was obscure, reclusive, and almost totally unknown, when he was hired by Lester Barnstorm, a somewhat tarnished and definitely over-the-hill executive at Marathon Productions.
Tape after tape demonstrated that Barnstorm had contributed only small pieces of the total project, while Goodman had done almost all of the actual writing and programming needed to construct The Solar Ballet interactive reality.
During that same period, the publicity department continued to churn out ream after ream of material about the genius of Lester Barnstorm, the sole creator of The Solar Ballet, thus creating and maintaining a vivid public perception that Barnstorm, the great man, was being unfairly and maliciously attacked by a disgruntled ex-employee.
Humanitarian awards for Barnstorm from four different national organizations, a Congressional Citation, a successful worldwide lecture tour, the naming of a Lunar crater in his honor, a Black Hole award, and a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
What Barnstorm did not know was that Goodman had wired himself for both sound and video.
Lester Barnstorm had treated Daniel Goodman fairly in the first place.
Lester Barnstorm represents every sleazeball producer who ever lied to, cheated, bullied, or abused a writer.
Everyone knew this effort to barnstorm in the swing states could cost Gore the election and put Bush in the White House.
World War One, and after that he barnstormed around the country for a while, before he started up Southwest Airlines.
I said, he was barnstorming, and his name was originally Barnstetter, so it made sense to make the change while he was doing that work.
The morning of April 30th, he showered and shaved and, after some consideration, put on his barnstorming outfit instead of his civilian go-to-Sunday-meeting clothes.
Besides, I was supporting myself well enough by bike racing and some barnstorming at weekends.
When I was ten years old, Dad took me over to a barnstorming show in a field just outside town.
I started barnstorming the hick towns, putting on my act in high school gymnasiums and farm auctions and anyplace else that would have me.
Their raucous core of senior employees had been a barnstorming crew of 1960s Californians, many of them markedly less than happy with the new button-down multimillion dollar regime at Apple.