Definition of Boomerang

(of a plan) to backfire or reverse with negative consequences

Examples of Boomerang in a sentence

Freda warned her husband that his shady business deals could boomerang back and cost him a lot of money.  

Brian’s cheating ways seemed to boomerang back when he found out that his wife was seeing another man.  

Because he had committed so many crimes in the past, the felon was always afraid that his old ways would boomerang in a karmatic way.  

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