Meanings
noungetback (countable and uncountable, plural getbacks)
plural getbacks
- countableuncountableAn act of revenge.
I ran from my parents' mistakes and the dark cloud that loomed over me from their petty games of getback.
2022, Lux Miller, Aether1 more example
If the resource was general and valuable, elements of criminality and vengeful getbacks — 'I'll burn your crops' — were an ever-present threat.
2013, Brent D. Shaw, Bringing in the Sheaves: Economy and Metaphor in the Roman World, page 248
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Origin
Deverbal from get back.
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