Associations to the word «Blowback»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
BLOWBACK, noun. (firearms) A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer.
BLOWBACK, noun. An unintended adverse result, especially of a political action.
BLOWBACK, noun. (slang) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
Dictionary definition
BLOWBACK, noun. The backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired.
BLOWBACK, noun. Misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service.
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.