Is Kick Back Slang?

Frequency: The definition of a kickback is slang for a bribe or incentive paid to someone who helped you make money, or a sudden, forceful recoil. ... When you shoot off a gun and the recoil sends you staggering backwards from the force, this is an example of a kickback.

What does a kick back person mean?

A kickback is a bribe or payment that's given to someone as a reward for their help with something. ... It's a particular type of bribe in which the person receiving the money (or candy) and the person giving it are both participating knowingly in something illegal.

Where does the expression kick back come from?

kickback (n.)

By 1926 the verbal phrase was being used in a slang sense of "be forced to return pelf, pay back to victims," which was extended to illegal partial give-backs of government-set wages that were extorted from workers by employers. Hence the noun in the sense of "illegal or improper payment" (1932).

Robert Thorne

Robert Thorne

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