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Boomerang
boomerang
(boomerangs, boomeranging, boomeranged) 1. A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there. N-COUNT 2. If a plan boomerangs, its result is not the one that was intended and is harmful to the person who made the plan. The trick boomeranged, though... He risks defeat in the referendum which he called, but which threatens to boomerang against him. = backfire VERB: V, V on/against n
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noun Etymology: Dharuk (Australian aboriginal language of the Port Jackson area) bumarin? Date: 1825 1. a bent or angular throwing club typically flat on one side and rounded on the other so that it soars or curves in flight; especially one designed to return near the thrower 2. an act or utterance that backfires on its originator • ~ intransitive verb ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a curved flat hardwood missile used by Australian Aboriginals to kill prey, and often of a kind able to return in flight to the thrower. 2 a plan or scheme that recoils on its originator. --v.intr. 1 act as a boomerang. 2 (of a plan or action) backfire. Etymology: Aboriginal name, perh. modified ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. бумеранг 2. замысел, обратившийся против замышлявшего boomerang effect —- обратный эффект, эффект бумеранга 3. действовать подобно бумерангу his argument boomeranged —- его довод обратился против него самого ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~1 n a curved stick from Australia that flies in a circle and comes back to you when you throw it ~2 v if a plan boomerangs on someone, it affects them instead of the person who it was intended to affect ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1827, adaptation of an aboriginal word from New South Wales, Australia. An early variant (1798) was wo-mur-rang. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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