kickback

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Synonyms: kick back, pickback, kickball, ticktack, nicknack, knockback, dicksack, pickaback, rickrack, kickbacks, pickpack

Antonyms: kick back, pickback, kickball, ticktack, nicknack, knockback, dicksack, pickaback, rickrack, kickbacks, pickpack

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|countable}}{{C|en|Exercise}} A [[backward]] [[kick]]; a [[retrograde]] [[movement]] of an [[extremity]].
2. {{lb|en|countable|informal}} A [[covert]], often [[illegal]], [[payment]] in return for a [[favor]] consisting of providing an [[opportunity]] of [[chargeable]] [[transaction]]; especially, a kind of [[quid pro quo]] in which ''if you (an [[inside job|insider]]) secretly help me (an outsider) win the bid for the contract then I will secretly send you a portion of the contract value''; thus, a kind of [[bribe]]. {{C|en|Corruption}}
3. {{lb|en|uncountable|firearms|machinery}} {{cap|recoil}}; a sudden [[backward]] motion, usually in the direction of the operator.
4. {{lb|en|countable|machinery}} An accident where an object being cut by a [[rotating]] [[blade]] or [[disk]], such as a [[circular saw]], is caught by the blade and thrown outward.
5. {{lb|en|machinery|forestry}} An accident wherein the upper tip of the [[bar]] of a running [[chainsaw]] contacts a relatively [[immovable]] object, forcing the bar upwards and pressing the running [[chain]] more firmly against the object, causing the saw to be [[hurl]]ed upwards and backwards into the operator's [[face]].
6. {{lb|en|oil drilling}} A dangerous buildup of [[gas]] pressure at the [[wellhead]].
7. {{lb|en|countable|bowling}} The board separating one [[bowling]] [[lane]] from another at the [[pit]] end.
8. {{lb|en|uncountable|bridge}} In [[contract bridge]], an [[ace]] asking convention initiated by the first step above four of the agreed [[trump]] suit.
9. {{lb|en|pinball}} A [[feature]] that saves the [[ball]] from [[drain]]ing and [[propel]]s it back into play.
10. A relaxed party.

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