Associations to the word «Fallout»

Wiktionary

FALLOUT, noun. The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
FALLOUT, noun. The particles themselves.
FALLOUT, noun. A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
FALLOUT, noun. (rare) A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
FALLOUT, noun. (rare) The person who declines such an offer.
FALLOUT SHELTER, noun. A thick-walled building, usually under the ground, built so that people can keep away from dust after a nuclear explosion.
FALLOUT SHELTERS, noun. Plural of fallout shelter

Dictionary definition

FALLOUT, noun. The radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion.
FALLOUT, noun. Any adverse and unwanted secondary effect; "a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats