the ability to recover after a setback, especially in sport.
The word was first used by Iain Dowie, the Crystal Palace manager, after his team had equalised against Arsenal.
I think it is a fine addition to the English language, albeit that Dowie embedded it in a sentence that bore only a passing resemblance to English - "Crystal Palace have shown great bouncebackability against their opponents to really be back in this game," he said.
But most of all must be the recent Liverpool performance in the Champions League final - mother of all bouncebackability.
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