kickback

Meanings

Plural: kickbacks

Noun

• a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction
• A backward kick; a retrograde movement of an extremity.
• 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 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.
• Recoil; a sudden backward motion, usually in the direction of the operator.
• 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.
• 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 hurled upwards and backwards into the operator's face.
• A dangerous buildup of gas pressure at the wellhead.
• The board separating one bowling lane from another at the pit end.
• In contract bridge, an ace asking convention initiated by the first step above four of the agreed trump suit.
• A feature that saves the ball from draining and propels it back into play.
• A relaxed party.

Synonyms

kicker

Related Words

bribe, fee splitting, kick back