boomerangnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbuː.mə.ræŋ/us/ˈbuː.mə.ræŋ/a curved stick that, when thrown in a particular way, comes back to the person who threw it
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Miscellaneous games & activities
- air hockey
- bingo
- bungee jumping
- cage diving
- charade
- crossword
- cryptic crossword
- free running
- freestyle football
- Frisbee
- handball
- hangman
- noughts and crosses
- pinball machine
- quoits
- resistance training
- softball
- tiddlywinks
- treasure hunt
- tug of war
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Hand weapons
boomerangverb [ I ]
uk/ˈbuː.mə.ræŋ/us/ˈbuː.mə.ræŋ/If a plan boomerangs, it brings a harmful result instead of the intended good one:
Our plan to take over the business could boomerang on us if we're not careful.
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Failing and doing badly
- at-risk
- backbencher
- balls-up
- be running on empty idiom
- beat a dead horse idiom
- crack
- crash
- draw
- fail
- fall apart
- flunk out
- fray around/at the edges idiom
- fumble
- get off on the right/wrong foot idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- screw (sth) up
- sink like a stone idiom 1
- sink like a stone
- so much for sth idiom
- stagnate
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