Definitions
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- noun A dangerous
blast of hot air behind arocket ormissile when it isfired .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun backfire from a recoilless weapon
Etymologies
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Examples
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The instructor told him to make sure no one was behind him before he fired the weapon sends out a powerful backblast.
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See just how far you get with your “punishment” before you get a little backblast.
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The backblast sent more crud and smoke into their position.
Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010
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The backblast sent more crud and smoke into their position.
The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010
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The boom and flash of the backblast was followed by a shriek of frustration.
The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010
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The boom and flash of the backblast was followed by a shriek of frustration.
Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010
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If you're expecting Terminators in your living room, you want something with no backblast, such as the French Eryx or the new SMAW-D (CS).
How to terminate a Terminator eddvick 2008
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 Savitar dissolves into ashes, as we see all the Flashes, Jay and Iris West, Liberty Belle the former Jessse Quick and the smoking body in the Iowa field exhibiting strange Speed Force-backblast…
Review DC: The Flash - Rebirth #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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At one point I asked her why, and braced for a men-will-never-understand backblast.
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The last backblast from that sealing had tainted the male half of the True Source, and men who could channel, madmen who could channel, had torn the world apart.
The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993
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