NOUN
- misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service
- the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired
How To Use blowback In A Sentence
- With any blowback design, it's fairly common for the hammer spring to help slow down slide recoil.
- I worked to identify it - the smell of stale ash, the blowback of an aged coal burner, cinders falling from the sky, the aftermath of some inflamed astonishment - or not.
- The evidence is so muddled and conflicted when it comes to the efficacy of coercive interrogation that I find it hard to justify these tactics at all, especially given the blowback from their use.
- Once a translation is placed out there in the public domain, there are many people who can consult both the original and the translated works and the blowback can be significant when problems are uncovered.
- The flow of people, goods and ideas across borders makes blowback inevitable.
- But one seasoned observer of African-American politics agrees there is potential for blowback.
- The CIA's fears that there might ultimately be some blowback from its egregious interference in the affairs of Iran were well founded.
- The warmongers talk of ‘blowback’, referring to unintended negative results in combat.
- The anonymous snarker is safe from snark blowback. Alex Remington: Middle-Aged Film Critic Writes a Book Railing Against Snark; Man on Internet Agrees
- Then there is the risk of future blowback, a real economic cost and thus a form of taxation by blowback.
