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Noun backlash has 2 senses
  1. recoil, repercussion, rebound, backlash - a movement back from an impact
    --1 is a kind of movement, motion
    --1 has particulars:
     bounce, bouncing; resilience, resiliency; ricochet, carom
  2. backlash - an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence; "there was a backlash of intolerance"
    --2 is a kind of     reaction
    --2 has particulars: whitelash, white backlash
    Derived form: verb backlash1
,Verb backlash has 1 sense
  1. backfire, backlash - have an unexpected and undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"
    --1 is one way to react, oppose
    Derived form: noun backlash2
    Sample sentence:
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