the.com/comeback

means A return to success or popularity after a period of failure, decline, or absence — or a quick, sharp reply to an insult.

from Straightforward compound of 'come' + 'back,' first used literally of returning (a dog comes back, a traveler comes back). By the early 1900s American sportswriters and vaudeville slang had bent it into two new senses that stuck: an athlete or performer 'coming back' from defeat or obscurity, and a retort that 'comes back' at whoever just insulted you — both images rooted in the same simple idea of something returning to where it started, only now with force behind it.