Usually means: Recovery after a relationship ends.
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  1. rebound: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rebound, rebound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rebound, rebound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rebound: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rebound: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rebound, rebound: Wordnik
  7. rebound: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rebound: Wiktionary
  9. rebound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rebound: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rebound: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. rebound: Dictionary.com
  13. rebound (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rebound: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rebound (Arty and Mat Zo song), Rebound (Sebadoh song), Rebound (TV series), Rebound (basketball), Rebound (characters), Rebound (dating), Rebound (game show), Rebound (manga), Rebound (sports), Rebound (video game), Rebound, The Rebound: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rebound: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rebound: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rebound: Rhymezone
  19. rebound: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rebound: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. rebound: Free Dictionary
  22. rebound: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. rebound: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  3. Rebound: Investopedia
  4. rebound: Legal dictionary

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  1. rebound: Encyclopedia

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  6. rebound: Medical dictionary
  7. Rebound: Drug Medical Dictionary
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  1. rebound: Idioms

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  1. rebound: Natural History Terms

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. Rebound: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
noun:  A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
noun:  An effort to recover from a setback.
noun:  (colloquial) The period of getting over a recently ended romantic relationship.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player or the crossbar or goalpost.
noun:  (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:  To bound or spring back from a force.
verb:  To give back an echo.
verb:  (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
verb:  (transitive) To send back; to reverberate.
verb:  (basketball) To catch the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without scoring a basket for the other team.

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