comeback
- a return to a former higher rank, popularity, position, prosperity, etc.: The ex-champion kept trying to make a comeback.
- a clever or effective retort; rejoinder; riposte: That was a great comeback the comedian made to the hecklers.
- Informal. a basis or cause of complaint: If you insist on buying these pointed shoes, you'll have no comeback when your toes start to hurt.
Origin of comeback
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resurgence, return, revival, rebound, improvement, victory, winning, rally, rejoinder, repartee, quip, retaliation, riposte, reply, responseExamples from the Web for comeback
Contemporary Examples of comeback
The Comeback was, without question, one of the year's best and funniest comedies.
We might have thought The Comeback was about a desperate actress's shameless struggle for fame.
If laughter is the best medicine, The Comeback made you feel enough pain to need a dose—and then it delivered in spades.
When you think about all of that, the success of this Comeback run is all the more impressive.
It's been nine years that fans of The Comeback have been clamoring for HBO to "give her another take."
Historical Examples of comeback
While I turned to answer it, my mind was still hunting a comeback to this.
The Million-Dollar SuitcaseAlice MacGowan
As she's beamin' straight at me I has to give her some comeback.
Torchy As A PaSewell Ford
Angela gasped: "Oh, comeback, comeback, darling Miss Humf'ay!"
Once Aboard The LuggerArthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson
Now, with every chance for a comeback, Nan wanted me to pass!
The ScapegoatRichard Maples
I didn't have any comeback about that, for there was certainly some truth in what he says.
Believe You Me!Nina Wilcox Putnam
comeback
- a return to a former position, status, etc
- a return or response, esp recriminatory
- a quick reply; retort
- to return
- to become fashionable again
- to reply after a period of considerationI'll come back to you on that next week
- US and Canadian to argue back; retort
- come back to someone (of something forgotten) to return to someone's memory