comeback vs rejoinder

comeback

noun
  • A retort or answer, particularly a quick or clever one. 

  • A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity. 

  • An occurrence of an athlete or sports team in a competition overcoming a substantial disadvantage in points to win or draw. 

rejoinder

noun
  • A quick response that involves disagreement or is witty, especially an answer to a question. 

  • The defendant's answer to the replication. 

  • Re-insertion, typically after allowance of a patent application, of patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement. 

  • A response that answers another response. 

verb
  • To issue a rejoinder. 

  • To say as a rejoinder. 

How often have the words comeback and rejoinder occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )