kick back
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
pay a kickback; make an illegal payment
Types & categories
- pay hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
spring back, as from a forceful thrust
The gun kicked back into my shoulder
Types & categories
- bounce hypernym
Related & opposite
- recoil derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | kickback |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | crime |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | pay |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | recoil |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | bounce |