swingback

I. \\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun

Etymology: swing (III) + back, n.

1. : a pivoting back for some cameras that allows the film or plateholder to be tilted for correcting or distorting the perspective in a photograph or for shifting the focal plane so as to bring oblique objects into focus

2. : swayback of lambs

II. noun (-s)

Etymology: from the phrase swing back, from swing (I) + back, adverb

: a movement of reaction (as a return to favor or influence of a political party)

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/swing"bak'/, n.

(esp. in political affairs) a return or reversion, as to previous opinion, custom, or ideology: We must fight any swingback to isolationism.

[1860-65; n. use of v. phrase swing back]