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1. A movement back from an impact
   - recoil, repercussion, rebound
    
2. An adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence
   "there was a backlash of intolerance"

1. Come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect
   "the political movie backlashed on the Democrats";
   - backfire, recoil

Derived forms: backlashed, backlashes, backlashing

Type of: come about, fall out, go on, hap [archaic], happen, motion, movement, occur, pass, pass off, reaction, take place

Encyclopedia: Backlash