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• n  a return punch (especially by a boxer)

• In a thundering speech that compared the suffering of blacks to that of Job and offered a counterpunch to President Clinton's morning address in Austin, Farrakhan held forth for .
• That would create the opportunity for Obama to launch a counterpunch, just as the Republicans exhaust themselves.
• Obama's counterpunch: "These endless diatribes and schoolyard taunts from the McCain campaign do nothing to advance the debate about what matters to the American people.

• parry
• counter

News & Articles

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• Baseball: North and South split two on day one of Oregon All-Star Series
  South shortstop Cooper Stiles turns a double play with North's Gerhett Moser sliding in during the South's 7-2 victory in game one of the Oregon All-Star Series at Goss Stadium in Corvallis on Saturday. - (Miles Vance/Beaverton Leader)CORVALLIS – So far, it’s been punch and counterpunch at the Oregon...
  June 16, 2013 - The Oregonian

Quotes

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• Hillary Rodham Clinton in Forbes
  I try not to attack first, but I have to defend myself - I do have to counterpunch,Clinton told NBC's "Today Show."
• Brent Scowcroft in Moment Magazine
  After the meeting, former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft described Ahmadinejad to The New York Times as "a master of counterpunch, deception, circumlocution."
• Somjit Jongjohor in International Herald Tribune
  The Cuban will be more difficult to beat than Picardi,Somjit said. "The thing that I will worry about the most is his counterpunch. I will have to adjust my style by not moving too fast."