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Sensitive Spot At The Rear That Hurts Yankee

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adjective satellite

• quick to take offense

• difficult to handle; requiring great tact

29%8 Miscalculated move in a game that hurts the player
noun

• the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired

• a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine

• a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path

• a miscalculation that recoils on its maker

verb

• come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect

• emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire

• set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire

29%8 In a manner that provokes or hurts emotionally
adverb

• extremely and sharply

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