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Kick back   Listen
verb
kick back  v. t.  To pay (a kickback); as, they kicked back five percent of the sales price.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Kick back" Quotes from Famous Books



... .. < chapter xxxi 2 QUEEN MAB > Next morning Stubb accosted Flask. Such a queer dream, King-Post, I never had. You know the old man's ivory leg, well I dreamed he kicked me with it; and when I tried to kick back, upon my soul, my little man, I kicked my leg right off! And then, presto! Ahab seemed a pyramid, and I, like a blazing fool, kept kicking at it. But what was still more curious, Flask—you know how curious all dreams are— through all this rage that I was in, I somehow seemed ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville

... night before Christmas, Shem Dugmore's squatty log cabin made a blot on the thin blanket of snow, and inside the one room of the cabin Shem Dugmore sat alone by the daubed-clay hearth, glooming. Hours passed and he hardly moved except to stir the red coals or kick back some ambitious ember of hickory that leaped out upon the uneven floor. Suddenly something heavy fell limply against the locked door, and instantly, all alertness, the shock-headed mountaineer was backed up against the ...
— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb



Words linked to "Kick back" :   crime, recoil, bounce, resile, spring, kickback, criminal offence, rebound, ricochet, offense, criminal offense, law-breaking, take a hop, kick, pay, reverberate



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