back-blast

1. 1.

   backfire from a recoilless weapon

   Synonymsbackblast

   Broaderblowback

Questions about back-blast

What does back-blast mean?

back-blast means "backfire from a recoilless weapon".

How many syllables are in back-blast?

back-blast has 2 syllables: back--blast. The stress falls on "back-".

What is another word for back-blast?

Close synonyms include backblast. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is back-blast a common word?

back-blast is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.