prodigal son

Noun

prodigal son (plural prodigal sons)

1. Someone who returns home from travelling or exile or who is welcomed back after disgrace, especially having repented of former extravagant or immoral behavior.
   • Here I am, the prodigal son
     The self proclaimed deprived
     Spending hours of fighting the peace
     When I should lay it on the line2010, “Enter Dog of Pavlov”, performed by Soilwork, Sweden
   • Don’t look back in anger—Oasis, the prodigal sons of Brit-pop, is returning. After years of public feuding and subtweets and alleged battery with a cricket bat, the Gallagher brothers—Liam and Noel, obvs—are working it out on the remix, with a rash of 2025 summer dates announced on their website.2024 August 28, Raven Smith, “Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, and the Art of the Public Feud”, in Vogue
2. A marine fish, the cobia (Rachycentron canadum).