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Meanings of blow-back in anglès

rus
отдача свободного затвора
portuguès
blowback
espanyol
blowback

Unintended consequences of a covert operation that are suffered by the aggressor.

        Related terms
        отдача свободного затвора
        Sinònims
        Examples for "blowback"
        Examples for "blowback"
        1
        Saudi Arabia is increasingly feeling the heat of the Sunni hardline blowback.
        The Guardian
        2
        Honor your strength and dig in your heels to weather any blowback.
        Ebony
        3
        So here I am implementing those things and it's a blowback, he said.
        Radio NZ
        4
        The blowback from President Obama's interactive town hall has been intense and widespread.
        Wired
        5
        I was choking on its blowback so I closed my mouth.
        Crazy for the storm: a memoir of survival
        Usage of blow-back in anglès
        1
        He's got the hose in one hand, glove frozen stiff from blow-back.
        Shadow of the Mothaship
        2
        There has been similar blow-back in Yemen and Somalia.
        Reuters
        3
        Intervening in that would be a gale-force political move generating fierce blow-back, already underway from Hayes's boss, LibDem energy secretary Ed Davey.
        The Guardian
        4
        With its 1,300km border with Russia, Finland has been particularly worried about potential blow-back of the Ukraine-Russia standoff.
        The Irish Times
        5
        The flat-tiled roof has a pitch of only 9 degrees, which meant we have had leak (and blow-back) problems over its 15-year life.
        The Irish Times
        6
        "If the gun barrel is in tight contact with the skull, ectocranial beveling can be created by the blow-back of gases," LaManche said.
        Cross Bones
        Translations for blow-back
        portuguès
        blowback
        espanyol
        blowback