Noun
- 1. fallout, radioactive dust, dust
- usage: the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion
- 2. side effect, fallout, consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot
- usage: any adverse and unwanted secondary effect; "a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal"
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