Definitions for boomerang

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boomerang boo·mer·ang

Spelling: [boo-muh-rang]

IPA: /ˈbu məˌræŋ/

Boomerang is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 483 anagrams from letters in boomerang (abegmnoor).

Definitions for boomerang

noun

1. a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
2. something, as a scheme or argument, that does injury to the originator.
3. Theater. a mobile platform, adjustable to different levels, for painting scenery. a batten, usually suspended vertically in the wings, for holding lighting units.

verb (used without object)

1. to come back or return, as a boomerang.
2. to cause harm to the originator; backfire.

Origin of boomerang

1820-30; Dharuk būmarin^y

Examples for boomerang

But then it occurred to me that there was a way of using the weapon which threatened, as a boomerang.

Pat Valdo hurries off to prepare for his boomerang throwing.

If there's good news, it's that boomerang babies aren't entirely those who can't afford to live on their own.

Pullingo, who had brought his boomerang, at once eyed them eagerly.

But the boomerang had come to my hand, and I'd caught it on the fly.

Bewildered, she tried to retaliate with the boomerang of vituperation.

The native Australians called this constellation "The boomerang."

"boomerang" is the joint nom-de-plume of a Young Australian and his collaborator.

Either a club such as savages use or something to throw like a boomerang.

Occasionally, too, Pullingo brought some down with his boomerang.