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Noun: comeback  'kúm`bak
  1. A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
    "it brought a sharp comeback from the teacher"
    - rejoinder, retort, return, riposte, replication, counter
     
  2. Return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity
Verb: come back  kúm bak
  1. Be restored
    "Her old vigour came back"
    - return
     
  2. Go back to something earlier
    "This comes back to a previous remark of his"
    - hark back, return, recall
     
  3. Even the score, in sports
     
  4. Answer back
    - retort, repay, return, riposte, rejoin

Derived forms: came back, coming back, comes back, come back, comebacks

Type of: answer, catch up, denote, reappear, reappearance, re-emerge, refer, reply, respond, response, return

Encyclopedia: Comeback

Nearest

come a cropper
come about
come across
come after
come again
come alive
come along
come apart
come around
come away
come back
come before
come by
come clean
come close
come down
come forth
come forward
come hell or high water
come home
come in