- a reduction in rate, quantity, etc.: a cutback in production.
- a return in the course of a story, motion picture, etc., to earlier events.
- a play in which the ball-carrier abruptly reverses direction, especially by starting to make an end run and then turning suddenly to run toward the middle of the line.
- a maneuver in surfing of heading the surfboard back toward a wave's crest.
- a decrease or reduction
- another word (esp US) for flashback
- to shorten by cutting off the end; prune
- to reduce or make a reduction (in)
- (in films) to show an event that took place earlier in the narrative; flash back
