Usually means: Return of money for favor.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. kickback: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. kickback: Merriam-Webster
  3. kickback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. kickback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. kickback: Collins English Dictionary
  6. kickback: Vocabulary.com
  7. Kickback, kickback: Wordnik
  8. kickback: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. kickback: Wiktionary
  10. kickback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. kickback: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. kickback: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. kickback: Dictionary.com
  14. kickback: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Kickback (album), Kickback (bribery), Kickback (chainsaw), Kickback (video game platform), Kickback, The Kickback (album), The Kickback (band), The Kickback (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. kickback: Rhymezone
  17. kickback: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. kickback: FreeDictionary.org
  19. kickback: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. kickback: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. kickback: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. kickback: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. kickback: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Kickback: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  9. Kickback: Investopedia
  10. kickback: Legal dictionary
  11. kickback: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kickback: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. kickback, kickback, kickback: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. kickback: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) A backward kick; a retrograde movement of an extremity.
noun:  (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 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.
noun:  (uncountable, firearms, machinery) Recoil; a sudden backward motion, usually in the direction of the operator.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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 hurled upwards and backwards into the operator's face.
noun:  (oil industry) A dangerous buildup of gas pressure at the wellhead.
noun:  (countable, bowling) The board separating one bowling lane from another at the pit end.
noun:  (uncountable, bridge) In contract bridge, an ace asking convention initiated by the first step above four of the agreed trump suit.
noun:  (pinball) A feature that saves the ball from draining and propels it back into play.
noun:  A relaxed party.

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