snap back

Larson felt his head snap back, but the Kevlar worked: the bullet stuck in the helmet.

The whipsaw can and does go up with almost as much speed as it goes down—recall the snap back from the lows of March of 2009.

I would have liked to snap back, "Would you like to get there alive?"

Could you pull the rubber tree out as high as the stars, and would it snap back again?

He felt his hard fist crash against the point of Yuma's chin and saw the cowboy's head snap back.

Ross snapped it level with the panel, and when it did not snap back, he felt somehow encouraged.

This rifle is very fast in action as a snap back and forth of the wrist is sufficient to operate it.

By lifting the hammer of the rifle and letting it snap back, the captain had exploded one cartridge at random.