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English verb: kick back | |||
| 1. | kick back (possession) pay a kickback; make an illegal payment | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something to somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | pay | ||
| Domain category | crime, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking, offence, offense | ||
| 2. | kick back (contact) spring back, as from a forceful thrust | ||
| Samples | The gun kicked back into my shoulder. | ||
| Synonyms | kick, recoil | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop | ||
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