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Kick back   /kɪk bæk/   Listen
Kick back

verb
1.
Pay a kickback; make an illegal payment.
2.
Spring back, as from a forceful thrust.  Synonyms: kick, recoil.





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"Kick back" Quotes from Famous Books



... viewed with good-humored tolerance—good-humored, because Dan was six feet tall and had combative red-gold hair. His steel eyes were shaded by long straw-colored lashes; he had a fighting look about him. He had a magnificent temper, red, but not uncalculating, with a punch like a mule's kick back of it. ...
— Dan Merrithew • Lawrence Perry
... "but not about his food. Jump on him about his health, then he'll kick back and in pure obstinacy begin to think he's well—that's ...
— The Veiled Lady - and Other Men and Women • F. Hopkinson Smith


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