rebounds

Noun

rebound (plural rebounds)

1. The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
2. A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
   • I am on the rebound.
3. An effort to recover from a setback.
4. (colloquial) The period of getting over a recently ended romantic relationship.
   • "I get it. Girl caught him on the rebound when he was vulnerable."2014 April 4, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Apr 4, 2014
5. (colloquial) A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of getting over a previous, recently ended romantic relationship.
   • What if she was a rebound after all and he didn't feel the same way for her anymore?2008, Craig Ainsworth, Proceed with Caution: Life's a Journey, →ISBN, page 96
6. The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player or the crossbar or goalpost.
   • The inevitable Baggies onslaught followed as substitute Simon Cox saw his strike excellently parried by keeper Bunn, with Cox heading the rebound down into the ground and agonisingly over the bar.2010 December 28, Kevin Darling, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2022

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