boomeranging

Verb

boomerang (third-person singular simple present boomerangs, present participle boomeranging, simple past and past participle boomeranged)

1. (intransitive) To return or rebound unexpectedly, especially when the result is undesired; to backfire.
   • "Well, there must be some flaw about this," I suggested. "If your magnet is so strong as all that, you would have your own broadside boomeranging back upon you."1882 March 7, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters
2. (intransitive) To travel in a curved path.
   • He said that to the horse as it boomeranged off again and broke away through the scrub.1894, Henry Lawson, “The Mystery of Dave Regan”, in Short Stories in Prose and Verse
3. (RAF slang) To abort a mission and return to base early.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:boomerang.

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