What (who) is blowback - definition
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Blowback (disambiguation); Blow-back
blowback
The unintented fallout due to the often ugly business of espionage work.
The decision to hold many top-level Al-Queda officials in Egypt and Jordan is a clear effort of the part of the CIA to minimize blowback.
By holding them in a foreign nation the prisoners are not protected by American civil liberties and interrogation can be much more creative.
Modern interrogation techniques bear little resemblance to the knuckle-busting nonsense portrayed in Hollywood action movies but, nevertheless, would violate many rights normally extended to Americans.
The decision to hold many top-level Al-Queda officials in Egypt and Jordan is a clear effort of the part of the CIA to minimize blowback.
By holding them in a foreign nation the prisoners are not protected by American civil liberties and interrogation can be much more creative.
Modern interrogation techniques bear little resemblance to the knuckle-busting nonsense portrayed in Hollywood action movies but, nevertheless, would violate many rights normally extended to Americans.
blowback
¦ noun a process in which gases expand or travel in a direction opposite to the usual one.
Blowback (firearms)
![slide]] is enough to delay opening of the chamber until pressure has dropped.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hammerless380.jpg?width=200 "slide]] is enough to delay opening of the chamber until pressure has dropped.")
![[[MK 108 cannon]] bolt cycle (part I)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MK108 bolt cycle AB.png?width=200 "[[MK 108 cannon]] bolt cycle (part I)")
![[[MK 108 cannon]] bolt cycle (part II)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MK108 bolt cycle CD.png?width=200 "[[MK 108 cannon]] bolt cycle (part II)")
![rifle]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PedersenPatentToggle.gif?width=200 "rifle]]")
![MP5]] [[submachine gun]]. This system had its origins in the late-war [[StG 45(M)]] [[assault rifle]] prototype.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/US Patent 3283435 8-Nov-1966 BREECH CLOSURE Theodor Koch.png?width=200 "MP5]] [[submachine gun]]. This system had its origins in the late-war [[StG 45(M)]] [[assault rifle]] prototype.")
TYPE OF FIREARM ACTION
Blowback-operated; Blowback action; Gas-delayed blowback; Roller-delayed blowback; Delayed blowback; Chamber-ring delayed blowback; Blowback operation; Kiraly Delayed Blowback; Lever-delayed blowback; Lever-Delayed Blowback; Advanced Primer Ignition; Roller delayed blowback; Lever Delayed Blowback; Toggle-delayed blowback; Blowback (arms); Vector-delayed blowback; Lever delayed; API Blowback; Delayed-blowback; Radial delayed blowback; Direct blowback; Simple blowback
Blowback is a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gas created by the ignition of the propellant charge.
Pronunciation examples for blowback
1. SPEAKER: Have you received blowback
State Bird Provisions _ Stuart Brioza & Nicole Krasinski _ Talks at Google
2. got any blowback from anything?
Broadway's Avenue Q _ Talks at Google
3. you will get tremendous blowback,
Stop Hurting & Start Helping Women in Tech _ Brianna Wu _ Talks at Google
4. there has been political pushback and blowback.
Black Poems _ Clint Smith _ Talks at Google
5. a lot of like flack or blowback?
Not to Be Missed - Fifty-Four Favorites from a Lifetime of Film _ Kenneth Turan _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of blowback
1. Morales fares in the blowback of his grand stroke.
2. In France, there is already evidence of blowback.
3. She‘s the only one who understands Bourne‘s true nature: blowback.
4. Blowback, outrageous Buddha–blasting and all, is visiting Pakistan.
5. Such carryover is "not blowback, it‘s bleed–over," he said.