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What is a blowback?

What is a blowback? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An unintended adverse result, especially of a political action.
  2. (slang) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
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Besides, I was mindful of the blowback if things should turn out to be other than the conventional western wisdom.
The gun operates by direct blowback, which to the user means more effort to muscle back the slide.
Adkins' answer came in the form of a gas retarded blowback system, which, of course, was another Browning patent.
I'm not sure the Administration can afford the political blowback from implementing the military commissions system.
Now we are seeing another form of blowback, from the policy choices made by the Bush Administration in its war on terrorism.
Will this patriotic fervor survive the blowback that top government officials believe we may soon experience?

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