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imperial boomerang

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English

Syllables
im-pe-ri-al -boomerang
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A phenomenon in colonizing countries where techniques of control and repression developed for use against the colonized are later used against the citizens of the colonizing country itself.

Inflected Forms

imperial boomerangs (plural)

Synonyms

Foucault's boomerang

Questions

What does imperial boomerang mean?
A phenomenon in colonizing countries where techniques of control and repression developed for use against the colonized are later used against the citizens of the colonizing country itself.

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