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Boomerang

noun

A curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower. Synonyms: throw stick, throwing stick.

A miscalculation that recoils on its maker. Synonym: backfire.

verb

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

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"Boomerang" Quotes from Famous Books

... fancy him!" said Norah, making an effort to break away from her own thoughts; "roaming the bush with a boomerang and a waddy, and dressed in strips of ...

— A Little Bush Maid • Mary Grant Bruce

... going around the world in ten days was as preposterous as that projected by Jules Verne in 1873 when he wrote Around the World in Eighty Days. But time has a way of hurling ridicule back as effectively as a boomerang. For we have seen and marvelled at the shattering not only of the mythical eighty-day record but even the ten-day record, as progress wends its ceaseless, ambitious, difficult and almost fantastic ...

— Around the World in Ten Days • Chelsea Curtis Fraser

... this constellation "The Boomerang." To the Hebrews it was "Ataroth" and by this name it is known in the East to-day. No two of the seven stars composing the Crown are moving in the same direction or at ...

— A Field Book of the Stars • William Tyler Olcott

... by her own accord," she said. "It looks as though her scheme had somehow proved a boomerang. Someone stood up for you, Judy, mighty loyally. Miss Rutledge's name being mentioned in the note tells me that. Was it Dorothy, I wonder? No; it wasn't. She promised us that she wouldn't go ...

— Jane Allen: Right Guard • Edith Bancroft

... the outcome in horrified dismay, regretting his rash flurry of sympathy. It had become a boomerang. What if Brian's protege in a fit of remorse saw fit to keep his sister posted? Kenny would indeed find clues. The possibility ...

— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple

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