kickback
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Definitions
noun
- 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.
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kickerdeclinedownturnbacklashclimb-downsetbackreversereversalfallbackdecreasebackslidingretreatretractrelapseretrogressionregressregression