rebound

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration

   They are still on the rebound from their spouse's death.

2. 2
   noun

   A return to health or well-being; a recovery.

   I am on the rebound.

3. 3
   noun

   The period of getting over a recently ended romantic relationship.

   "I get it. Girl caught him on the rebound when he was vulnerable."

4. 4
   noun

   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?

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   verb

   To bound or spring back from a force.

   Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.

7. 7
   verb

   To give back an echo.

   each cave and echoing rock rebounds

8. 8
   verb

   To jump up or get back up again.

   “Even after this utter devastation, most people in the Greenwood community, most African Americans in Tulsa said to themselves and to their larger community, ‘we shall not be moved.’ And they rebounded and rebuilt and created an incarnation of Black Wall Street that would surpass its initial version.”

Etymology

From Old French rebondir.