Usually means: Bribe given secretly as payment.
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  1. backhander: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. backhander: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backhander: Collins English Dictionary
  4. backhander: Vocabulary.com
  5. backhander: Wordnik
  6. backhander: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. backhander: Wiktionary
  8. backhander: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. backhander: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Backhander, backhander: Dictionary.com
  11. Backhander: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Backhander: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. backhander: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Backhander: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. backhander: Free Dictionary
  16. backhander: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. backhander: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. backhander: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. backhander: Encyclopedia

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  1. backhander: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. backhander: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Backhander: Sports Definitions

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noun:  A glass of wine given out of turn, the bottle having been handed backwards.
noun:  A blow with the back of the hand.
noun:  (informal) A bribe, a secret payment.
noun:  (racquet sports) A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.
noun:  (racquet sports) A player who plays a backhand shot.
noun:  (surfing) A surfer who approaches a swell with the wave behind them ("on their backhand") rather than facing the wave ("on their forehand").

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