blowback
(slang) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc.
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Mayor vetoes STAR ordinance, gets blowback
Packing was hard but I managed it by taking two of my last six Sirdalud + using my last €1:58 on a can of 10% beer. There probably will be no blowback from that. Finland: Made of Win
Credit-fueled AI boom risks blowback. #econsky
The post colonial blowback of a free Black person telling you to go fuck yourself gotta be a Hertz Donut Taste good to me tho
Better late than never. I wonder if they were getting blowback for ignoring her stories when they actually came out?
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(slang) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
It is a story about blowback from Sunni Islamist extremists who went to Syria from various Arab countries and were allowed to assemble there in the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
“Mayor vetoes STAR ordinance, gets blowback”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Packing was hard but I managed it by taking two of my last six Sirdalud + using my last €1:58 on a can of 10% beer. There probably will be no blowback from that. Finland: Made of Win”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Credit-fueled AI boom risks blowback. #econsky”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The post colonial blowback of a free Black person telling you to go fuck yourself gotta be a Hertz Donut Taste good to me tho”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Better late than never. I wonder if they were getting blowback for ignoring her stories when they actually came out?”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(figurative) An unintended adverse result, especially of covert political action.
“Firefox. Yeah, they added AI features, but got enough blowback that you can completely disable them.”
“Keep crying liberal. We will never forget what you monsters did to us in 2024, and we're done listening to your lies. The blowback is coming and we will make no apologies when you get what you deserve.”
“Everyone should have smartened up when the MAGAs complained they weren't free to say the n-word without blowback. Like, how is that at the top of anyone's list of 'freedoms'?”
“Video: Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11) Says Republicans Won’t Challenge Trump on Iran War Because “they don’t want to cross him,” are “terrified” of the “blowback” bluevirginia.us/2026/05/vide...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Vance votes in person in 2026 Ohio primary after Trump’s mail-in blowback https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Firefox. Yeah, they added AI features, but got enough blowback that you can completely disable them.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Keep crying liberal. We will never forget what you monsters did to us in 2024, and we're done listening to your lies. The blowback is coming and we will make no apologies when you get what you deserve.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Everyone should have smartened up when the MAGAs complained they weren't free to say the n-word without blowback. Like, how is that at the top of anyone's list of 'freedoms'?”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(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.
All of the other retired C.I.A. officers who appeared before the subcommittee today acknowledged that the problem of the “domestic blowback” of agency propaganda had been a genuine problem, out most of them dismissed the mounting concern…
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