Definition of Boomeranged

1. Verb. (past of boomerang) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Boomeranged

1. boomerang [v] - See also: boomerang

Lexicographical Neighbors of Boomeranged

boom vangs
boomage
boombox
boomboxes
boomburb
boomburbs
boomdas
boomed
boomer
boomerang
boomerang-child
boomerang baby
boomerang child
boomerang children
boomerang kid
boomeranged
boomeranger
boomerangers
boomeranging
boomeranglike
boomerangs
boomeritis
boomers
boomier
boomiest
boominess
booming
boomingly
boomings
boomkin

Literary usage of Boomeranged

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"Here the boomerang was out- boomeranged. The contractors decided to apply the reductio ad absurdum to the police themselves, and so quit work, ..."

2. The House of Lords and Ideological Politics: Lord Salisbury's Referendal by Corinne Comstock Weston (1995)
"But Gladstone's activity had boomeranged when he inadvertently demonstrated that either an effective second chamber or the referendum was essential "to ..."

3. The House of Lords and Ideological Politics: Lord Salisbury's Referendal by Corinne Comstock Weston (1995)
"But Gladstone's activity had boomeranged when he inadvertently demonstrated that either an effective second chamber or the referendum was essential "to ..."

4. The Book of Washington by Robert Shackleton (1922)
"Hayes, man of excellent intentions and fair abilities, boomeranged into the White House by the Electoral Commission ..."

5. Peter Parley's Annual. by William Martin (1885)
"... or boomeranged at any instant, and part of the way lay, for at least three miles, through a mountain gorge, with a sheer precipice on one side of us, ..."

6. State of the Nation: South Africa 2007 by S Buhlungu (2007)
"... for at least one national coach, one may add, the 'kaffirs'.1 The labelling often boomeranged on the very players that the policy was supposed to help. ..."

7. In Portia's Gardens by William Sloane Kennedy (1897)
"A long walk on an empty stomach is a bad iI am sorry to record that it was he who boomeranged himself so badly in the eyes of posterity by omitting the Good ..."

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