BOOMERANG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boomerang mean? 

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

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

2. a miscalculation that recoils on its maker

  Familiarity information: BOOMERANG used as a noun is rare.

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOMERANG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

boomerang; throw stick; throwing stick

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

missile; projectile (a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled)

Domain region:

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)

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

kiley; kylie (an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex)

Derivation:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A miscalculation that recoils on its maker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

backfire; boomerang

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

miscalculation; misestimation; misreckoning (a mistake in calculating)

Derivation:

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

• BOOMERANG (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they boomerang    ... he / she / it boomerangs   
Past simple: boomeranged   
Past participle: boomeranged   
-ing form: boomeranging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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

return (go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

boomerang (a miscalculation that recoils on its maker)

boomerang (a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower)