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Projectile Backfire Crossword Clue

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noun

• a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower

• a miscalculation that recoils on its maker

verb

• return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang

33%8Backfire
noun

• 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

• 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 gases created by the ignition of the propellant charge.

33%7Backfire
noun

• an explosion that fails to occur

• a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)

verb

• fail to fire or detonate

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