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Definition of comeuppance noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

 

comeuppance

 noun
noun
NAmE//kʌmˈʌpəns//
 
[singular] (informal)
 
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a punishment for something bad that you have done, that other people feel you really deserve I was glad to see that the bad guy got his comeuppance at the end of the movie.
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