comebacker

noun

come·​back·​er ˈkəm-ˌba-kər 

plural comebackers

1

baseball : a ground ball hit directly to the pitcher

… Cormier had retired Mo Vaughn … on a weak comebacker to the mound to end the seventh.

—Gordon Edes

2

golf : a putt back to the hole after a preceding putt has rolled past it

After pitching to within 20 feet of the pin, Junior runs his first putt four feet past and then misses the comebacker.

—Jaime Diaz

Examples of comebacker in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The game took an ugly turn for the Angels in the sixth, when reliever Brock Burke sailed a throw six feet over first baseman Oswald Peraza’s head on Thomas’s inning-opening comebacker, an error that led to an unearned run and a 9-1 A’s lead. —Mike Digiovanna, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025

Jake Cronenworth drilled a comebacker off Brown’s leg for an RBI single. —Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025

An inning later, O’Hearn followed Machado’s homer with a walk, and Laureano singled on a comebacker that unfortunately knocked Giants starter Landen Roupp from the game with a knee injury. —Dennis Lin, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025

Headrick recently took a comebacker off his arm. —Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1954, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for comebacker

• firecracker
• acker
• backer
• blacker
• cracker
• hacker
• lacquer
• packer
• slacker
• stacker
• thacker
• tracker