Usually means: Strong negative reaction to change.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. backlash: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. backlash: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backlash: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backlash: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backlash: Vocabulary.com
  6. Backlash, backlash: Wordnik
  7. backlash: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. backlash: Wiktionary
  9. backlash: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. backlash: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. backlash: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Backlash, backlash: Dictionary.com
  13. backlash: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. backlash: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Backlash (Bad English album), Backlash (Freddie Hubbard album), Backlash (Marc Slayton), Backlash (Wildstorm), Backlash (comics), Backlash (disambiguation), Backlash (engineering), Backlash (pressure group), Backlash (sociology), Backlash: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Backlash: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. backlash: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. backlash: Rhymezone
  19. backlash: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. backlash: Free Dictionary
  21. backlash: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. backlash: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. backlash: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. backlash: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. backlash: Legal dictionary

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  1. backlash: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Conflict Resolution Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Backlash: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See backlashed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (literal) A suddenly reversed or backward motion, such as of a rope or elastic band when it snaps under tension.
noun:  (figurative) A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
noun:  (mechanics) The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, such as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
noun:  (mechanics) The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.
verb:  To perform a backlash, to lash back in reaction to some cause.

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