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backfire ((v.))†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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v.
start a backfire.
Quotations
1929
At other points they back-fired, taking advantage of every change of wind that they might set the forest to blazing and consume the enemy with its own flames.
1963
And so . . . we set to . . . to urge the broncos across the valley with the shares sunk deep, so that we would have a chance to backfire.