kickback
Noun
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Noun
kickback
- (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 drilling) 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.
- Synonyms: kicker
- German: Schmiergeldzahlung, Schmiergeld, für eine Gefälligkeit heimlich ausgezahlter Geldbetrag (descriptive)
- Russian: отка́т
- German: Rückschlag
- French: rétrocommission
- Italian: contraccolpo, sconto, abbuono, tangente, bustarella, mazzetta, pizzo
- Portuguese: propina
- Russian: отка́т
- Spanish: soborno
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