Blowback

Language: English
Pronunciation: blow-back
Part of Speech: noun

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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.

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"the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired"

"misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service"

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