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Meaning of kickback

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

kickback

noun

Definitions

  1. A backward kick, a retrograde movement of an extremity.

  2. A covert – often illegal – payment in return for a favor consisting of providing an opportunity of chargeable transaction.

  3. (machinery) Recoil; a sudden backward motion, usually in the direction of the operator.

  4. (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.