BACKLASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does backlash mean? 

• BACKLASH (noun)
  The noun BACKLASH has 2 senses:

1. a movement back from an impact

2. an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence

  Familiarity information: BACKLASH used as a noun is rare.

• BACKLASH (verb)
  The verb BACKLASH has 1 sense:

1. come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect

  Familiarity information: BACKLASH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACKLASH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A movement back from an impact

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

backlash; rebound; recoil; repercussion

Hypernyms ("backlash" is a kind of...):

motion; movement (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "backlash"):

bounce; bouncing (rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts))

resilience; resiliency (an occurrence of rebounding or springing back)

carom; ricochet (a glancing rebound)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

there was a backlash of intolerance

Hypernyms ("backlash" is a kind of...):

reaction (doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "backlash"):

white backlash; whitelash (backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances)

Derivation:

backlash (come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect)

• BACKLASH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

backfire; backlash; recoil

Context example:

the political movie backlashed on the Democrats

Hypernyms (to "backlash" is one way to...):

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

backlash (an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence)

 Context examples 

A consumer backlash erupted after the studies received media attention so manufacturers started reducing the use of BPA in some consumer products or even eliminating it in so-called BPA-free products by replacing it with such alternatives as BPF and BPS.

(Do Food Container Chemicals Make Us Fat?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)