back-burner

See also: backburner and back burner

English

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Adjective

back-burner (comparative more back-burner, superlative most back-burner)

1. (idiomatic) Having low urgency; not currently important.

Verb

back-burner (third-person singular simple present back-burners, present participle back-burnering, simple past and past participle back-burnered)

1. 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.