Meaning of BACKFIRE
| Pronunciation: | | 'bak`fIr
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- [n] a miscalculation that recoils on its maker
- [n] a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine
- [v] set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire
- [v] emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire, as of cars
- [v] have an unexpected and undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"
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| | Synonyms: | | backlash, boomerang |
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| | See Also: | | backblast, burn, burn down, detonation, explosion, fire, make noise, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, noise, oppose, react, resound | |
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| | Definition: | | Backfire
Hiring the marketing-savvy Fiorina to run Hewlett-Packard made some waves within the venerable technology giant. BACKFIRE recounts those tumultuous days and provides background on the woman who was picked to take HP into the next century. Burrows, a journalist for Business Week, offers insights culled from interviews with several insiders to present a thorough accounting of the days leading up to Fiorina`s hiring and the company`s merger with Compaq. more details ... |
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| | Related Terms: | | backlash, backlashing, balefire, bang, beacon, beacon fire, blast, blaze, blow out, blow up, blowout, blowup, bonfire, boom, boomerang, bounce, bounce back, bound, bound back, burning ghat, burst, bust, campfire, cannon, cannon off, carom, cheerful fire, combustion, come to grief, comeback, conflagration, contrecoup, corposant, counterattack, counterblast, counterblow, counterfire, counterinsurgency, countermeasure, counterrevolution, counterstep, counterstroke, cozy fire, crackling fire, crematory, death fire, defense, detonate, detonation, discharge, explode, explosion, fall through, fen fire, fire, fizzle, flame, flare, flash, flashing point, flicker, flickering flame, fly back, forest fire, fox fire, fulguration, fulminate, fulmination, funeral pyre, go off, have repercussions, ignis fatuus, ignition, ingle, kick, kick back, kickback, lambent flame, lash back, lay an egg, let off, marshfire, miscarry, miss, open fire, prairie fire, pyre, raging fire, rebound, rebuff, recalcitrate, recalcitration, recoil, repercuss, repercussion, report, repulse, resile, resilience, retort, ricochet, sea of flames, set off, sheet of fire, shoot, signal beacon, smudge fire, snap back, spring, spring back, three-alarm fire, touch off, two-alarm fire, watch fire, wildfire, witch fire |
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