0 past simple and past participle of boomerang
1 If a plan boomerangs, it brings a harmful result instead of the intended good one:
The sponsor was only being helpful, but that boomeranged.
It was blown up out of all proportion to its merits and this ballyhoo boomeranged, and quite rightly so.
So that rule boomeranged, as some of us warned it would.
It proved to be a strange new parliamentary device—a damp squib that boomeranged.
But surely his argument has boomeranged.
He took these bills and boomeranged them into his top hat.
