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backwash

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backwash
noun
1 a ship's backwash:
wake, wash, slipstream, backflow;
path, trail.
2 the backwash of the Cuban missile crisis:
repercussions, reverberations, aftereffects, aftermath, fallout;
upshot, consequences, results, effects, byproducts.