kick back

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === kick back (third-person singular simple present kicks back, present participle kicking back, simple past and past participle kicked back) (informal, intransitive, idiomatic) To relax; to laze. Synonyms: take it easy, lie back, kick it, kick up one's heels (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. (informal, idiomatic) To return (something) to its original or rightful owner. Hyponym: retrocede (informal, idiomatic) To drink (something). (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 ==== Derived terms ==== kickback (noun) ==== See also ==== (split proceeds corruptly): tollgate (verb) === Noun === kick back (countable and uncountable, plural kick backs) Nonstandard spelling of kickback.