Words that rhyme with blowback

  • quarterback
    n 1: (football) the person who plays quarterback [syn: quarterback, signal caller, field general] 2: (American football) the position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team; "quarterback is the most important position on the team" [syn: quarterback, signal caller, field general] v 1: play the quarterback
  • aback
    adv 1: having the wind against the forward side of the sails; "the ship came up into the wind with all yards aback" 2: by surprise; "taken aback by the caustic remarks"
  • back
    adv 1: in or to or toward a former location; "she went back to her parents' house" 2: at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car" [syn: back, backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards] [ant: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards] 3: in or to or toward an original condition; "he went back to sleep" 4: in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly backward" [syn: back, backward] [ant: ahead, forward] 5: in reply; "he wrote back three days later" 6: in repayment or retaliation; "we paid back everything we had borrowed"; "he hit me and I hit him back"; "I was kept in after school for talking back to the teacher" adj 1: related to or located at the back; "the back yard"; "the back entrance" [ant: front(a)] 2: located at or near the back of an animal; "back (or hind) legs"; "the hinder part of a carcass" [syn: back(a), hind(a), hinder(a)] 3: of an earlier date; "back issues of the magazine" n 1: the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine; "his back was nicely tanned" [syn: back, dorsum] 2: the side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph" [syn: rear, back] [ant: front] 3: the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer; "he stood at the back of the stage"; "it was hidden in the rear of the store" [syn: back, rear] [ant: front] 4: (football) a person who plays in the backfield 5: the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back" [syn: spinal column, vertebral column, spine, backbone, back, rachis] 6: the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book; "the book had a leather binding" [syn: binding, book binding, cover, back] 7: the part of a garment that covers the back of your body; "they pinned a `kick me' sign on his back" 8: a support that you can lean against while sitting; "the back of the dental chair was adjustable" [syn: back, backrest] 9: (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage v 1: be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960" [syn: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support] 2: travel backward; "back into the driveway"; "The car backed up and hit the tree" 3: give support or one's approval to; "I'll second that motion"; "I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project" [syn: second, back, endorse, indorse] 4: cause to travel backward; "back the car into the parking spot" [ant: advance, bring forward] 5: support financial backing for; "back this enterprise" 6: be in back of; "My garage backs their yard" [ant: face, front, look] 7: place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse" [syn: bet on, back, gage, stake, game, punt] 8: shift to a counterclockwise direction; "the wind backed" [ant: veer] 9: establish as valid or genuine; "Can you back up your claims?" [syn: back, back up] 10: strengthen by providing with a back or backing
  • bareback
    adv 1: without a saddle; "she prefers to ride her horse bareback" [syn: bareback, barebacked] adj 1: riding without a saddle; "a bareback rider" [syn: bareback, barebacked]
  • biofeedback
    n 1: a training program in which a person is given information about physiological processes (heart rate or blood pressure) that is not normally available with the goal of gaining conscious control of them
  • black
    adj 1: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" [ant: white] 2: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. [ant: white] 3: marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words" 4: offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things" [syn: black, bleak, dim] 5: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy [syn: black, dark, sinister] 6: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful] 7: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" [syn: black, blackened] 8: extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch- black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" [syn: black, pitch-black, pitch-dark] 9: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" [syn: black, grim, mordant] 10: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda" 11: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" [syn: bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled] 12: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" [syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful] 13: (of coffee) without cream or sugar 14: soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" [syn: black, smutty] n 1: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) [syn: black, blackness, inkiness] [ant: white, whiteness] 2: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" [syn: total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black] 3: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) [syn: Black, Joseph Black] 4: popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) [syn: Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple] 5: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) [syn: Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid] 6: (board games) the darker pieces [ant: white] 7: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black" v 1: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" [syn: blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black] [ant: white, whiten]
  • comeback
    n 1: a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one); "it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher" [syn: rejoinder, retort, return, riposte, replication, comeback, counter] 2: return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity
  • crookback
    adj 1: characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column [syn: crookback, crookbacked, humped, humpbacked, hunchbacked, gibbous, kyphotic] n 1: a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine [syn: humpback, hunchback, crookback]
  • cutback
    n 1: a reduction in quantity or rate
  • diamondback
    n 1: large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings [syn: diamondback, diamondback rattlesnake, Crotalus adamanteus]
  • dieback
    n 1: a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches
  • drawback
    n 1: the quality of being a hindrance; "he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan"
  • fallback
    n 1: to break off a military action with an enemy [syn: disengagement, fallback, pullout]
  • fatback
    n 1: salt pork from the back of a hog carcass
  • feedback
    n 1: the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output 2: response to an inquiry or experiment
  • flashback
    n 1: a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story [ant: flash- forward] 2: an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
  • fullback
    n 1: (football) the running back who plays the fullback position on the offensive team 2: (American football) the position of a back on a football team v 1: play the fullback
  • greenback
    n 1: a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes" [syn: bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback]
  • halfback
    n 1: (football) the running back who plays the offensive halfback position 2: (American football) the position of a back on a football team
  • hardback
    adj 1: having a hard back or cover; "hardback books" [syn: hardbacked, hardback, hardbound, hardcover] n 1: a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers [syn: hardback, hardcover]
  • hatchback
    n 1: a car having a hatchback door 2: a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open [syn: hatchback, hatchback door]
  • hogback
    n 1: a narrow ridge of hills [syn: hogback, horseback]
  • horseback
    adv 1: on the back of a horse; "he rode horseback to town"; "managed to escape ahorse"; "policeman patrolled the streets ahorseback" [syn: horseback, ahorse, ahorseback] n 1: the back of a horse 2: a narrow ridge of hills [syn: hogback, horseback]
  • huckaback
    n 1: toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric [syn: huck, huckaback]
  • hunchback
    n 1: an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column [syn: kyphosis, humpback, hunchback] 2: a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine [syn: humpback, hunchback, crookback]
  • kickback
    n 1: a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction
  • leatherback
    n 1: wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle [syn: leatherback turtle, leatherback, leathery turtle, Dermochelys coriacea]
  • mossback
    n 1: an extremely old-fashioned conservative
  • outback
    adj 1: inaccessible and sparsely populated; [syn: outback(a), remote] n 1: the bush country of the interior of Australia
  • paperback
    adj 1: (of books) having a flexible binding [syn: paperback, paperbacked] n 1: a book with paper covers [syn: paperback book, paper- back book, paperback, softback book, softback, soft-cover book, soft-cover]
  • piggyback
    adv 1: on a railroad flatcar; "the trailer rode piggyback across the country" [syn: piggyback, pickaback, pig-a-back] 2: on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip; "she carried her child piggyback" [syn: piggyback, pickaback, pig-a-back] n 1: the act of carrying something piggyback v 1: ride on someone's shoulders or back 2: haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars 3: haul by railroad car 4: support on the back and shoulders; "He piggybacked her child so she could see the show" 5: bring into alignment with; "an amendment to piggyback the current law"
  • playback
    n 1: the act of reproducing recorded sound; "he was allowed to hear the playback of his testimony" 2: electronic equipment comprising the part of a tape recorder that reproduces the recorded material
  • pullback
    n 1: a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back; "the draperies were drawn to the sides by pullbacks" [syn: pullback, tieback] 2: (military) the act of pulling back (especially an orderly withdrawal of troops); "the pullback is expected to be over 25,000 troops"
  • razorback
    adj 1: having a sharp narrow back; "a razor-backed horse"; "razorback hogs" [syn: razorback, razor-backed] n 1: a mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States [syn: razorback, razorback hog, razorbacked hog] 2: any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin [syn: rorqual, razorback]
  • rollback
    n 1: the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw [syn: rollback, push back] 2: reducing prices back to some earlier level
  • setback
    n 1: an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating [syn: reverse, reversal, setback, blow, black eye]
  • stickleback
    n 1: small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research [syn: stickleback, prickleback]
  • tailback
    n 1: (American football) the person who plays tailback 2: (American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage
  • throwback
    adj 1: characteristic of an atavist [syn: atavistic, throwback(a)] n 1: an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism [syn: atavist, throwback] 2: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic [syn: atavism, reversion, throwback]
  • tieback
    n 1: a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back; "the draperies were drawn to the sides by pullbacks" [syn: pullback, tieback]
  • touchback
    n 1: (American football) a play in which the opposing team has kicked the football into your end zone
  • wetback
    n 1: (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent [syn: greaser, wetback, taco]
  • wingback
    n 1: (football) the person who plays wingback 2: (American football) the position of the offensive back who lines up behind or outside the end
  • callback
    n 1: a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair) [syn: recall, callback]
  • payback
    n 1: financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment) 2: the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"-- Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution" [syn: vengeance, retribution, payback]
  • zwieback
    n 1: slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp [syn: zwieback, rusk, Brussels biscuit, twice-baked bread]
  • saddleback
    n 1: a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) [syn: saddleback, saddle] 2: a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end [syn: gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback, saddleback roof]
  • cornerback
    n 1: a defensive football player stationed outside the linebackers
  • pickaback
    adv 1: on a railroad flatcar; "the trailer rode piggyback across the country" [syn: piggyback, pickaback, pig-a-back] 2: on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip; "she carried her child piggyback" [syn: piggyback, pickaback, pig-a-back]
  • tombac
    n 1: an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding [syn: tombac, tombak, tambac]
  • camelback
  • fastback
  • fireback
  • holdback
  • leaseback
  • runback
  • shellback
  • skewback
  • splashback
  • switchback
  • whaleback
  • ack
  • akc
  • backe
  • bak
  • bakke
  • boback
  • flyback
  • hoback
  • talkback
  • yellowback
  • sowback
  • orbach
  • wayback

See also blowback definition