<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>A reduction in rate, quantity, etc.: a cutback in production.</li><li>A return in the course of a story, motion picture, etc., to earlier events.</li><li>In football, 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.</li><li>A maneuver in surfing of heading the surfboard back toward a wave's crest.</li></ul>