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  • noun Plural form of barnstormer.

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Examples

  • Stunt pilots were also known as barnstormers, flying over small towns and using farm fields, near barns, as runways.

    WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

  • If the barnstormers were the game’s itinerant preachers, the Celtics were its high priests.

    Pistol Mark Kriegel 2007

  • If the barnstormers were the game’s itinerant preachers, the Celtics were its high priests.

    Pistol Mark Kriegel 2007

  • If the barnstormers were the game’s itinerant preachers, the Celtics were its high priests.

    Pistol Mark Kriegel 2007

  • But my first exposure to Joyce was in a sleepy little black shoebox theatre, where a troupe of mild-mannered turtlenecked barnstormers read from Dubliners from a stage decorated with high stools, and where I, underexposed and underage and over my head, had too much to drink and fell asleep in mid-performance.

    After the Race | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2010

  • - Bumming rock news: Washington City Paper reports that local garage rock barnstormers the Points have broken up.

    Happy birthday, Pearl Jam; The Points break up; Local singer Danni Rosner lands TV spot Chris Richards 2010

  • No politicians, no football jocks, financiers, movie stars, software barnstormers, or druggie blondes with press agents.

    Dan Agin: Book Review: The Very Strange World of Quantum Physics Dan Agin 2012

  • No politicians, no football jocks, financiers, movie stars, software barnstormers, or druggie blondes with press agents.

    Dan Agin: Book Review: The Very Strange World of Quantum Physics Dan Agin 2012

  • No politicians, no football jocks, financiers, movie stars, software barnstormers, or druggie blondes with press agents.

    Dan Agin: Book Review: The Very Strange World of Quantum Physics Dan Agin 2012

  • I know a lot of people who love Hornblower Napoleonic barnstormers, but who might be put off by the dragons: now's their chance to get drawn into this historical fiction on the sly!

    Boing Boing 2009

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