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

McCullers fielded Carter’s comebacker but uncorked a relay throw that resembled his sinker, tailing down toward the bag and away from Peña’s chest-high target. —Chandler Rome, New York Times, 17 May 2025

Sean Reynolds, Jeremiah Estrada and Adrian Morejon kept the Dodgers in check through the eighth inning – but only after Morejon created his own trouble with a throwing error on a soft comebacker off Ohtani’s bat. —Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 10 June 2025

Weathers shook off a scary comebacker off Seiya Suzuki’s bat in the third inning. —Steve Gorten, Miami Herald, 21 May 2025

After matching Yamamoto zero for zero (in both runs and hits) in the early going, the Atlanta right-hander suffered a bad break in the fourth, when Betts smoked a 94-mph comebacker off his backside for the night’s first hit. —Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 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