Usually means: Unintended consequences of covert actions.
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  1. blowback: Merriam-Webster
  2. blowback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blowback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blowback: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blowback: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blowback, blowback: Wordnik
  7. blowback: Wiktionary
  8. blowback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. blowback: Dictionary.com
  10. Blowback (The Shield), Blowback (album), Blowback (arms), Blowback (film), Blowback (firearms), Blowback (forensics), Blowback (intelligence), Blowback: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. blowback: Rhymezone
  12. blowback: FreeDictionary.org
  13. blowback: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. blowback: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. blowback: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. blowback: Encyclopedia

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  1. blowback: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. blowback: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. blowback: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Explosives (No longer online)

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Definitions from 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.
noun:  An unintended adverse result, especially of covert political action.
noun:  (slang) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
noun:  (rail transport) On a steam locomotive, the reversal of exhaust gases when the regulator is closed without using the blower.
noun:  (computing) Synonym of backscatter.

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