How to pronounce “blowback”

Meaning

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

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