blowback
Significado (Inglés)
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- (countable, uncountable) An unintended adverse result, especially of covert political action.
- (countable, slang, uncountable) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
- (countable, uncountable) On a steam locomotive, the reversal of exhaust gases when the regulator is closed without using the blower.
- (countable, uncountable) Synonym of backscatter.
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Etimoloxía (Inglés)
Deverbal from blow back.
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