Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun backfire from a recoilless weapon
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word back-blast.
Examples
-
They got into the car and roared out of the parking lot, leaving a billowing back-blast of gravel and dust.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994
-
They got into the car and roared out of the parking lot, leaving a billowing back-blast of gravel and dust.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994
-
It hit you like the back-blast of an explosion as you entered the room.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 Various
-
The wonders of digital communication and one of the reasons the left is having so much trouble getting away with their bovine back-blast.
Conservative Outpost Skip MacLure 2010
-
"It should not be necessary to point out to you that if they have been able to develop a wall-shield that will stand up under those conditions, the back-blast through the breech of the Q-gun will blow the Brittania apart as though she were so much matchwood.
Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.