blowback
Seed from Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025
Meanings by context
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- definition the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired
- definition misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service
- definition Blowback is a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gases created by the ignition of the propellant charge.