boomerang

boomerang

boomerang (third-person singular simple present boomerangs, present participle boomeranging, simple past and past participle boomeranged)

1. To return to the starting point.
2. To travel in a curved path.
   • 1894, Henry Lawson, The Mystery of Dave Regan in Short Stories in Prose and Verse,

     He said that to the horse as it boomeranged off again and broke away through the scrub.

3. To return or rebound unexpectedly, especially when the result is undesired; to backfire.
   • 1882 March 7, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters,

     ""Well, there must be some flaw about this,"" I suggested. ""If your magnet is so strong as all that, you would have your own broadside boomeranging back upon you.""

   • 1899 November, ""Showin Off"" in Harpers New Monthly Magazine, Volume 99, Number 594,

     ""Oh,"" they yelled, ""you could, eh? Well, lets see you do it, then! Lets see you do it! Lets see you do it! Now!"" In a moment the crew of little spectators were gibing at Horace. The blow that would make Jimmies humiliation complete! Instead, it had boomeranged Horace into the mud.

   • 1985 February 2, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Radio Address,

     Our future economic success depends on the economy growing faster than government spending. Thats why raising taxes would boomerang. Economic growth would slow, revenues would decline, and the budget deficit would swell.

boomerang (plural boomerangs)

1. A flat curved airfoil originally used in various parts of the world as hunting weapons or, in returnable types, for sports or training.
   • 1884, Andrew Lang, Star Myths in Custom and Myth,

     Some resemblance to terrestrial things, it is true, everyone can behold in the heavens. Corona, for example, is like a crown, or, as the Australian black fellows know, it is like a boomerang, and we can understand why they give it the name of that curious curved missile.

   • 1897, Warren Bert Kimberly, History of West Australia,

     With boomerang and spear they hunted the kangaroo and emu, and fought their battles beneath the eucalyptus forests; their minds, fresh, untroubled, contented, oblivious alike of noble ideals and philosophic principles.

   • 1961, Charlie Drake, song, My Boomerang Wont Come Back,

     ""Dont worry, boy, I know the trick, / And to you Im gonna show it. / If you want your boomerang to come back, / Well first youve got to... throw it.""

	bumerang
	flat curved airfoil
	A tool with a curved shape used as a weapon or for sport which returns when thrown into the air.

	boomerang
	flat curved airfoil

Altri significati:

To return to the starting point.

A flat curved airfoil originally used in various parts of the world as hunting weapons or, in returnable types, for sports or training.

To return or rebound unexpectedly, especially when the result is undesired.

To travel in a curved path.

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