"barn find" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-barn find.ogg [Australia] Forms: barn finds [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} barn find (plural barn finds)
  1. (idiomatic) A valuable item recovered from poor storage, such as a suburban garage, farm shed, etc., where it had been more or less forgotten; especially a vintage automobile. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: shed find
    Sense id: en-barn_find-en-noun-5OOAcLY7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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