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kickback — noun Date: 1920 1. a sharp violent reaction 2. a return of a part of a sum received often because of confidential agreement or coercion < every city contract had been let with a ten percent kickback to city officials D. K. Shipler > … New Collegiate Dictionary
kickback — n money returned or paid as part of an illegal or covert agreement. This term, which is no longer slang, originated in the pre World War II American underworld, in which to kick back meant to pay a fixed part of one s income, or a fixed… … Contemporary slang
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