Backfire

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Back-fire is an unintended explosion produced in a vehicle's engine.

Backfire also may refer to:

Film and television

• Backfire (1950 film), featuring Virginia Mayo and Gordon Macrae
• Backfire (film), a 1987 movie starring Karen Allen
• Backfire! (film), a 1995 spoof movie starring Josh Mosby and Robert Mitchum
• "Backfire" (CSI: Miami), an episode of the TV show CSI:Miami
• Backfire, a recurring segment on The Daily Show, 1996-1998

Other uses

• Backfire, NATO reporting name for the Soviet and Russian Tupolev Tu-22M long range bomber
• Operation Backfire (WWII), the launch of three A4 rockets in October 1945 near Cuxhaven
• Operation Backfire (FBI), an FBI operation against the radical environmental movement
• In economics, in the Jevons paradox, when the rebound effect exceeds 100%
• Backfire!, an arcade game
• Backfire (album), by the Goa trance group Transwave
• Backfire (Transformers), a fictional character
• Controlled burn or backfire, a firefighting technique
• An alcoholic cocktail made of Bailey's Irish Cream, Kahlúa, and vodka in equal portions
• Version 10.03 of the OpenWrt firmware
• An occurrence of unintended consequences that are the opposite of the intended result, or detrimental

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