Boomerang

Quick meaning: Boomerang is a noun meaning A breakdancing move in which the performer walks on their hands while keeping the legs raised off the ground.

Meaning

A breakdancing move in which the performer walks on their hands while keeping the legs raised off the ground.

More Meanings

1. (Australian rules football, rugby) A boomerang kick.
2. (theater) A device for changing the color of a followspot.
3. (RAF slang) The early return of an aircraft whose mission was aborted, often due to technical failures.
4. A cocktail made with rye whiskey and Swedish punsch.
5. (intransitive) To return or rebound unexpectedly, especially when the result is undesired; to backfire.
6. Any of various traditional throwing sticks used for hunting or combat by Australian aborigines, including the symmetrical, crescent-shaped, type (the returning boomerang).
7. A flat curved airfoil that spins about an axis perpendicular to the direction of flight, originally used in various parts of the world as a hunting weapon or, in returnable types, for sports or training.

Example Sentences

For quotations using this term, see Citations:boomerang.

"Well, there must be some flaw about this," I suggested. "If your magnet is so strong as all that, you would have your own broadside boomeranging back upon you."

Roll: A live action changing from one color to another. Typically requires dexterity to "crossfade" between two colors in the boomerang with one hand while following with the other.

Before long, however, these pike-like devices were mostly superseded by spring-operated guns of various types. Most of them shot spinning disks, crosses, or small boomerangs of thin steel.

Word Forms

• boomerangs
• boomeranging
• boomeranged

Synonyms for boomerang

Depending on context, synonyms include kylie, backfire.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include backfire, boom, batswing, rolleron, spinner, swept wing.

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