Definition of "rebound"

rebound¹

/ɹiˈbaʊnd/

noun
plural rebounds
1. The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
2. A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
3. An effort to recover from a setback.
4. (colloquial) The period of getting over a recently ended romantic relationship.
  Quotations
  "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.
  Quotations
  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, page 96
  Nika was dealt a terrible blow in finding she was a rebound and that Steve was still madly in love with his ex and that their love affair was sparked out of retaliation[.]
  2009, Kenny Attaway, Nuthouse Love, page 154
  Sure, he was a rebound, but he was a respectable rebound. Then, the rebound broke up with me.
  2010, Joan Moran, Sixty, Sex, & Tango: Confessions of a Beatnik Boomer, page 43
6. (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player or the crossbar or goalpost.
  Quotations
  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
7. (basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.
verb
third-person singular simple present rebounds, present participle rebounding, simple past and past participle rebounded
1. To bound or spring back from a force.
  Quotations
  Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
  1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […]
  Martin Kelly fired in a dangerous cross and the Hearts defender looked on in horror as the ball rebounded off him and into the net.
  2012 August 23, Alasdair Lamont, “Hearts 0-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎
2. To give back an echo.
  Quotations
  each cave and echoing rock rebounds
  a. 1714, Alexander Pope, Autumn
3. (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
4. (transitive) To send back; to reverberate.
  Quotations
  Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound, / And carry to the skies the sacred sound.
  1697, Virgil, “Pastoral 6”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
5. (basketball) To catch the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without scoring a basket for the other team.
  Quotations
  By the mid-19605, the top small forwards in the game were Rick Barry and Iohn Havlicek, both of whom excelled as defenders and passers, rebounded well, and provided their respective teams with exceptional scoring.
  2013, Robert W. Cohen, Pro Basketball's All-time All-stars: Across the Eras, page xxi
  I knew for sure if Griffin blocked shots and rebounded the basketball my Ravens would become champions.
  2021, Ronald Lee Fleming, Rise of the Ravens, page 2021

rebound²

/ˈɹiː.baʊnd/

verb
1. simple past and past participle of rebind

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