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

Take a 13-yard strike to Courtland Sutton on a comebacker early in the second quarter. —Luca Evans, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025

Jackson Merrill being thrown out between second and third trying to advance on Ramón Laureano’s comebacker to the pitcher last night was their fifth blunder in three days. —Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2025

Calvin Faucher entered for Miami and Hunter Goodman singled off him to bring up the tying run, but Faucher got Jordan Beck to hit a comebacker to nail down his 14th save. —John Devine, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2025

Narváez’s line-drive comebacker, leading off the fourth, snapped back into Fried’s glove as easily as a rubber band. —Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 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