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comeback
noun- a return to a formerly successful status US, 1908
- Shane Warne, who has 366 victims, could make a come back for Victoria in a one-day match in Perth tomorrow, more than two months after breaking his spinning finger. — Guardian, 1 January 2001
- Suddenly, the paper [Daily Mail] says, the kind of rhetoric and wrecking tactics once thought banished for good by Margaret Thatcher’s hard-won union reforms are making a comeback. — BBC News, 2 December 2002
- a repercussion; repercussions UK, 1894
- [S]uffer absolutely no come-back for it whatsoever[.] — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 206, 2001
- revenge US
- — American Speech, p. 306, December 1964: “Lingua cosa nostra”
- a return call on a citizens’ band radio US
- — Wayne Floyd, Jason’s Authentic Dictionary of CB Slang, p. 13, 1976
- a boomerang AUSTRALIA, 1878
- an adulterant used to dilute crack cocaine US
A chemical that when baked looks, smells, and tastes like CRACK- Max’s recipe calls for an “eighth” of cocaine (1/8 kilo, or 125 grams), 60 grams of bicarbonate of soda (ordinary baking soda) and 40 grams of “comeback,” an adulterant that has allowed Max to double his profits from crack. — Terry Williams, The Cocaine Kids, p. 17, 1989
- And like you Gee Money I have also been doing some experimenting and discovered by cutting the caine with comeback we make more product not less. — New Jack City, 1990
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