blowback
- n the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired
- n misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service
- Here was an early and definitive illustration of message revenge, the kind of fierce consumer blowback that can occur in markets when a product or service (or military occupation .
- But if Clinton, and McCain for that matter, are going to use these comments to cast Obama as an arrogant elitist, they better be prepared to deal with the blowback.
- In Kennedyland, where everyone is his brother's keeper, the blowback from Michael's scandal and publicity surrounding Shattered Faith have sent Joe's popularity sinking.