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boomerang
noun
- 1. A piece of flat curved wood used by Australian Aborigines for hunting, often so balanced that, when thrown to a distance, it returns towards the person who threw it.
2. A malicious act or statement which harms the perpetrator rather than the intended victim.
- intr
boomeranged, boomeranging
1. Said of an act or statement, etc: to go wrong and harm the perpetrator rather than the intended victim; to recoil or rebound.
