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kick_back
has definitions from the field of arms
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[ verb ] pay a kickback; make an illegal payment
Used in print (The Wall Street Journal...)The owner of a public_relations firm owed no income_tax on payments he received from a client company and `` kicked_back '' to the company 's advertising manager , the Tax_Court ruled . |
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[ verb ] (arms) spring back, as from a forceful thrust
Examples "The gun kicked back into my shoulder" Used in print (Howard Fast, April Morning....)I had squeezed the trigger of my own gun , and to my amazement , it had fired and kicked_back into my shoulder with the force of an angry mule ; and then I was adding my own voice to the crescendo of sound , hurling more vile language than I ever thought I knew , sobbing and shouting , and aware that if I had passed_water before , it was not enough , for my pants were soaking wet . |
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