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Slowback vs Blowback - What's the difference?

slowback | blowback |

As nouns the difference between slowback and blowback

is that slowback is (archaic|slang) a lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer while blowback is (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.

slowback

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic, slang) A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer.
    • (Webster 1913)

    blowback

    English

    Noun

    (en 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.
  • 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).