kickbackとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Deverbal from kick back.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkɪkbæk/

名詞

kickback (countable and uncountable, plural kickbacks)

1. (countable) A backward kick; a retrograde movement of an extremity.
   • 2010, Christina T. Loguidice, Bill Loguidice, Wii Fitness For Dummies:

     Kickbacks work the triceps muscle at the back of your arm. Exercising these muscles helps eliminate arm jiggle.

2. (countable, informal) A covert, often illegal, payment in return for a favor consisting of providing an opportunity of chargeable transaction; especially, a kind of quid pro quo in which if you (an insider) secretly help me (an outsider) win the bid for the contract then I will secretly send you a portion of the contract value; thus, a kind of bribe.

   Hypernyms: bribe; see also Thesaurus:bribe

   • 2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 4, in Moneyland, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 65:

     Central to his [Yury Skuratov's] investigation were kickbacks supposedly paid by a Swiss construction company for contracts to restore government buildings, including both houses of parliament.

   • 2021 February 11, “Publication 17 (2020), Your Federal Income Tax”, in irs.gov‎, Internal Revenue Service, retrieved 24 August 2021, Kickbacks:

     You sell cars and help arrange car insurance for buyers. Insurance brokers pay back part of their commissions to you for referring customers to them. You must include the kickbacks in your income.

3. (uncountable, firearms, machinery) Recoil; a sudden backward motion, usually in the direction of the operator.
4. (countable, machinery) An accident where an object being cut by a rotating blade or disk, such as a circular saw, is caught by the blade and thrown outward.
5. (machinery, forestry) An accident wherein the upper tip of the bar of a running chainsaw contacts a relatively immovable object, forcing the bar upwards and pressing the running chain more firmly against the object, causing the saw to be hurled upwards and backwards into the operator's face.
6. (oil industry) A dangerous buildup of gas pressure at the wellhead.
7. (countable, bowling) The board separating one bowling lane from another at the pit end.
8. (uncountable, bridge) In contract bridge, an ace asking convention initiated by the first step above four of the agreed trump suit.
9. (pinball) A feature that saves the ball from draining and propels it back into play.
   • 1973, Doug Anderson, “Pinball Wizard”, in Texas Monthly, volume 1, number 7, August 1973, page 84:

     We've come a long way since then. The progeny of that nail have been bent and twisted into what we all know and love as roll overs, kickbacks, and thumper-bumpers.

10. A relaxed party.

    Synonym: kicker

派生語

関連する語

参考

• bribe
• fee splitting

Further reading

• kickback on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

動詞

kick back (third-person singular simple present kicks back, present participle kicking back, simple past and past participle kicked back)

1. (informal, intransitive, idiomatic) To relax; to laze.

   Synonyms: take it easy, lie back, kick it, kick up one's heels

   I'm going to stay at home on Saturday and just kick back.

   • 2024, Gracie Abrams, Audrey Hobert, “That's So True”, in The Secret of Us‎, performed by Gracie Abrams:

     Ooh, bet you're thinking, "She's so cool"
     Kicking back on your couch, making eyes from across the room
     Wait, I think I've been there too

2. (informal, idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) To pay part of the proceeds of a transaction to a person or organization that mediated it, often in a way that is covert, improper, and illegal.

   It was the local government’s practice to kick back to the police officer a portion of the fines collected from traffic tickets.

   It was the insurer’s practice to kick back to the broker approximately 0.12% of the premium paid by the policyholder.

   It was the company’s practice to kick back to the negotiator at the client company.

3. (informal, idiomatic) To return (something) to its original or rightful owner.

   Hyponym: retrocede

   They'll kick it back to you if it turns up.

4. (informal, idiomatic) To drink (something).

   We'll kick back some beers.

5. (of a weapon or tool) To move suddenly and forcefully in reaction to the main action (for example, when a firearm jerks backward when a bullet is fired, or when a table saw thrusts the workpiece in an unexpected direction).

   Synonym: (what a firearm does) recoil

   You better watch yourself around that saw. That thing kicks back real hard occasionally, with no warning.

   My revolver can handle .357 Magnum cartridges, but I use .38 Special, because I don't need it kicking back harder than a mule.

派生語

• kickback (noun)

参考

• (split proceeds corruptly): tollgate (verb)

名詞

kick back (countable and uncountable, plural kick backs)

1. Nonstandard spelling of kickback.