kick back

1. 1.

   pay a kickback; make an illegal payment

   Broaderpay

   crime

2. 2.

   spring back, as from a forceful thrust

   “The gun kicked back into my shoulder”

   Synonymsrecoilkick

   Broaderbounce

Questions about kick back

What does kick back mean?

kick back means "pay a kickback; make an illegal payment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for kick back?

Close synonyms include recoil, kick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kick back a common word?

kick back is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.