plural of pat-on-the-back

past participle of spring back

plural of pat on the back

simple past tense and past participle of kick back

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kick back

present participle of kick back

(tennis, of a receiver) To win a game having lost a service game, or during a tiebreak, to win a point against the serve having lost a point while serving.

Said to someone coming back to somewhere they have been before.

(transitive) To hold back or suppress (an emotion, expression of emotion, or utterance).

A specific spelling of a word representing a phonetic feature never present in it, but was present in other words in the same phonetic environment (and was later lost), or the practice of making such spellings.