kick back

verb

Meaning

To relax.
To covertly pay in it the proceeds of a transaction in return for mediating it.
A backward kick, a retrograde movement of an extremity.
A covert – often illegal – payment in return for a favor consisting of providing an opportunity of chargeable transaction.
(machinery) Recoil; a sudden backward motion, usually in the direction of the operator.
(machinery) An accident wherein an object being cut by a rotating blade or disk, such as a circular saw, is caught by the blade and thrown outward.
A dangerous buildup of gas pressure at the wellhead.
The board separating one bowling lane from another at the pit end.

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