back-burner
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See also: backburner and back burner
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
back-burner (comparative more back-burner, superlative most back-burner)
Verb[edit]
back-burner (third-person singular simple present back-burners, present participle back-burnering, simple past and past participle back-burnered)
- Alternative form of backburner
- 2008, Linda Fairstein, Killer Heat, page 191:
- Cops closed them all with a code: NHI. The unsolved crimes had been back-burnered until a reporter revealed that the letters stamped on the police files were shorthand for No Human Involved.