# Blowback

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**Blowback** may refer to:

## Firearms

- [Blowback (firearms)](/source/Blowback_(firearms)), a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gases created by the ignition of the propellant charge
- [Blowback (forensics)](/source/Blowback_(forensics)), vacuum effect created in the barrel of a firearm when it is discharged
- Blowback, firearm discharge materials a concern for [Shooting range#Common safety practices](/source/Shooting_range#Common_safety_practices)

## Media and entertainment

- "Blowback", a 2020 song by [the Killers](/source/The_Killers) from *[Imploding the Mirage](/source/Imploding_the_Mirage)*
- [*Blowback* (film)](/source/Blowback_(film)), a 2000 film
- [*Blowback* (album)](/source/Blowback_(album)), a 2001 album by rapper Tricky
- ["Blowback" (*FlashForward*)](/source/Blowback_(FlashForward)), a 2010 *FlashForward* episode
- ["Blowback" (*Justified*)](/source/Blowback_(Justified)), a 2010 episode of *Justified*
- ["Blowback" (*Alias* episode)](/source/Blowback_(Alias_episode))
- [Blowback (*Journeyman*)](/source/Blowback_(Journeyman))
- [Blowback (*NCIS*)](/source/Blowback_(NCIS))
- [*Blowback* (podcast)](/source/Blowback_(podcast)), a podcast about American history and foreign policy
- [Blowback (*The Shield*)](/source/Blowback_(The_Shield))
- [Blowback Productions](/source/Blowback_Productions), an independent film and television production company founded in 1988 by Marc Levin. Along with producing partner, Daphne Pinkerson, they have made over 20 films and won numerous awards.
- *Blowback*, a 2009 bestselling military action thriller novel by former Indian Army officer Major [Mukul Deva](/source/Mukul_Deva) published by HarperCollins
- *Blowback*, a 2013 spy novel by former United States CIA operations officer [Valerie Plame](/source/Valerie_Plame)

## Other uses

- [Blowback (intelligence)](/source/Blowback_(intelligence)), unintended consequences of a covert operation that are suffered by the civil population of the aggressor government
- *Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire*, a 2000 nonfiction book by [Chalmers Johnson](/source/Chalmers_Johnson)
- Another term for [backscatter (email)](/source/Backscatter_(email))
- An aerodynamic phenomenon affecting helicopter rotors also called [flap back](/source/Flap_back)
- [Blowback (steam engine)](/source/Blowback_(steam_engine)), a type of failure, often catastrophic, of a steam engine

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