boomerang
noun
a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by Australian Aboriginal peoples as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
had boomeranged
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past perfectof boomerang.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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His strike had approached the proportions of the British general strike of 1926, which had boomeranged on labor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their effort to catch the Kelsos red-handed had boomeranged on them and now what might be proof of their theory had vanished.
From Smugglers' Reef by John Blaine
