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Definition of Kick back
1. Verb. Pay a kickback; make an illegal payment.
Generic synonyms: Pay
Derivative terms: Kickback
2. Verb. Spring back, as from a forceful thrust. "The gun kicked back into my shoulder"
Generic synonyms: Bounce, Bound, Rebound, Recoil, Resile, Reverberate, Ricochet, Spring, Take A Hop
Derivative terms: Kick, Recoil
Definition of Kick back
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To relax. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kick Back
Literary usage of Kick back
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. High Frequency Apparatus: Its Construction and Practical Application by Thomas Stanley Curtis (1916)
"For further protection from "kick back" on the line, place two small telephone
condensers in series across the line wires where they connect to the ..."
2. The Playground and the Parlour: A Handbook of Boys' Games, Sports, and by Alfred Elliott (1868)
"... is to kick back the ball into the goal of the other party. The side over whose
goal the ball is first kicked loses. The ball is usually of the size of a ..."
3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"The cars after dumping run forwards down the inclined tracks c, c to a single
kick-back, not shown, which is furnished with a device by which each car ..."
4. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1917)
"With a dull saw extra pressure is required on the saw, thus increasing the danger
of a kick-back, or of the operator's hand slipping on the saw. 2. ..."
5. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1917)
"... there was evidence that the plaintiff did not know or appreciate that a plank
as it passed through the planing machine was apt to "kick back" or that, ..."
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