Backlash vs Blowback - What's the difference?
backlash | blowback |
A sudden backward motion.
A reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
(mechanics) The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear.
The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.
To cause or set off a backlash.
(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.
An unintended adverse result, especially of a political action.
(slang) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
As nouns the difference between backlash and blowback
is that backlash is a sudden backward motion while blowback is 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.As a verb backlash
is to cause or set off a backlash.backlash
English
Noun
(es)- The public backlash to the proposal was quick and insistent.
Verb
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