Crossword-Solution: BACKLASH 8 letters, 43 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

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Word Word Type Definition
Backlash n. The distance through which one part of connected
machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving
the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear;
also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by
irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

We have 43 clues for the answer “BACKLASH”

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WHEELS, irregular recoil of 1 answer
Voter reaction of sorts 1 answer
Violent reaction 1 answer
Adverse reaction resulting from a perceived threat 1 answer
Strong negative reaction, as from the public 1 answer
Negative repercussions 1 answer
Sharp recoil. 1 answer
Quick, sharp recoil 1 answer
Political repercussions 1 answer
Adverse reaction 2 answers
Hostile reaction 2 answers
Sharp reaction 2 answers
negative reaction 3 answers
Strong reaction 4 answers
Unexpected result 4 answers
AND SHARP STRONG 10 answers
BLAME OR INSULT SOMEONE IN STRONG OR VIOLENT LANGUAGE 11 answers
Backfire 27 answers
Reaction 28 answers
fall through 29 answers
fizzle 32 answers
Kick Back 33 answers
Boomerang 34 answers
MOVE in reverse 38 answers
Explode 41 answers
Ignite 42 answers
repercussion 48 answers
misfire 49 answers
miscarry 49 answers
Bounce Back 49 answers
Flunk 50 answers
Burst 53 answers
Falter 54 answers
Fall Short 54 answers
Reply 66 answers
relapse 66 answers
React 67 answers
flounder 70 answers
Recoil 71 answers
fail 80 answers
Flop-___ 86 answers
Blunder 87 answers
Reversal 87 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
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greedy person
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Sentences with BACKLASH (5)

But such influence is usually easy to circumvent, and heavy-handed manipulation typically results in a backlash of resentment.
Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992
The public backlash against SEA for bringing suit helped to hasten the demise of ARC as a standard when PKWare and others introduced new, incompatible archivers with better compression algorithms.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
With Nixon's election, black and white radicals felt that the white and conservative backlash had taken over the "Establishment" and that official repression was bound to follow.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
Lotus' lawsuits against Mosaic Software, Paperback Software and Borland created a sub-culture backlash against the giant software company.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
The government implemented a comprehensive economic reform program in 1992 that included slashing the fiscal deficit, liberalizing foreign exchange regulations, and lifting most price controls, but it had backtracked on most reforms by mid-1993 because of its fear of generating a domestic backlash.
The 1994 CIA World Factbook United States Central Intelligence Agency 2008

Quotes with BACKLASH (3)

It was a frightening metaphor for what the United States was becoming — a Titanic of rich, proud dimwits heading for the iceberg of anti-colonialist backlash.
M.B. Dallocchio The Desert Warrior
DOGMA: a political belief one is unreasonably committed to, such as the notion that freedom is good and slavery is bad. BIAS: predeliction for a particular dogma. For example, the feminist bias is that women are equal to men and the male chauvinist bias is that women are inferior. The unbiased view is that the truth lies somewhere in between.(an early comment on backlash, from "Glossary for the Eighties")
Ellen Willis
The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door of the doll's house; a generation ago, women turned their backs on the consumer heaven of the isolated multiapplianced home; but where women are trapped today, there is no door to slam. The contemporary ravages of the beauty backlash are destroying women physically and depleting us psychologically. If we are to free ourselves from the dead weight that has…
Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 15 times in crossword archives (1963–2022).