kickback
See also: kick back
English
Etymology
Noun
kickback (countable and uncountable, plural kickbacks)
- (countable) A backward kick.
- 2010, Christina T. Loguidice, Bill Loguidice, Wii Fitness For Dummies
- Kickbacks work the triceps muscle at the back of your arm. Exercising these muscles helps eliminate arm jiggle.
- 2010, Christina T. Loguidice, Bill Loguidice, Wii Fitness For Dummies
- (countable) A clandestine payment in return for a favor; especially an illegal one.
- (uncountable, firearms, machinery) Recoil; a sudden backward motion, usually in the direction of the operator.
- (countable, machinery) An accident wherein an object being cut by a rotating blade or disk, such as a circular saw, is caught by the blade and thrown outward.
- (oil industry) A dangerous buildup of gas pressure at the wellhead.
- (countable, bowling) The board separating one bowling lane from another at the pit end.
- (uncountable, bridge) In contract bridge, an ace asking convention initiated by the first step above four of the agreed trump suit.
- (pinball) A feature that saves the ball from draining and propels it back into play.
- 1973, Doug Anderson, Pinball Wizard (in Texas Monthly volume 1, number 7, August 1973, page 84)
- We've come a long way since then. The progeny of that nail have been bent and twisted into what we all know and love as roll overs, kickbacks, and thumper-bumpers.
- 1973, Doug Anderson, Pinball Wizard (in Texas Monthly volume 1, number 7, August 1973, page 84)
- A relaxed party.
- Synonym: kicker
Translations
a form of negotiated bribery
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See also
- bribe
- fee splitting
- kick back
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