different between backlash vs crapstorm

English

Etymology

From back +? lash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæk?læ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

backlash (countable and uncountable, plural backlashes)

1. A sudden backward motion.
2. (figuratively) A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.

3. (mechanics) The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear.
4. The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

Derived terms

• techlash

Translations

Verb

backlash (third-person singular simple present backlashes, present participle backlashing, simple past and past participle backlashed)

1. To cause or set off a backlash.

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Anagrams

• black ash, hacklabs

English

Etymology

crap +? storm

Noun

crapstorm (plural crapstorms)

1. (informal) Euphemistic form of shitstorm (both senses).
   • 1996, Ivan Doig, Bucking the Sun:

     Watergate and that creep Nixon; the sheriff drove north through the night listening to every detail of the national crapstorm cascading down on anything Republican, the moment at last arriving when […]

   • 2020 December, Dave Barry, "Year in review":

     2020 was one long, howling, Category 5 crapstorm.