Definitions for kickback

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kickback kick·back

Spelling: [kik-bak]

IPA: /ˈkɪkˌbæk/

Kickback is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 26 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 29 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in kickback (abccikkk).

Definitions for kickback

noun

1. a percentage of income given to a person in a position of power or influence as payment for having made the income possible: usually considered improper or unethical.
2. a rebate, usually given secretively by a seller to a buyer or to one who influenced the buyer.
3. the practice of an employer or a person in a supervisory position of taking back a portion of the wages due workers.
4. a response, usually vigorous.
5. a sudden, uncontrolled movement of a machine, tool, or other device, as on starting or in striking an obstruction:

Origin of kickback

1930-35, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase kick back

Examples for kickback

Then Mubarak and his family and their allies would see benefits in return, presumably some kickback or a share of the profits.

Meanwhile, he earned the nickname "Mr. Ten Percent" for the kickback he purportedly took on government contracts.

The nerves of Average Jones gave a sharp "kickback," like a mis-cranked motor-car.

I want to set down what happened in case there's ever a kickback although I don't think there ever will be.

My question to the government is this: What constitutes a modern-day bribe or kickback?

The "kickback" would have certainly killed or wounded us both.

Is a perpetrator off the hook because he or she uses the market to pay the kickback?

Another Russian word the actor might learn, the commenters proposed, was raspilit, or "kickback."