English Explanatory Dictionary

imperial boomerang

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

imperial boomerang imperial boomerangs

Synonyms

Foucault's boomerang
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