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What is a backhander?

What is a backhander? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A glass of wine given out of turn, the bottle having been handed backwards.
  2. A blow with the back of the hand.
  3. (informal) A bribe, a secret payment.
  4. (racquet sports) A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.
  5. (surfing) A surfer who approaches a swell with the wave behind them ("on their backhand") rather than facing the wave ("on their forehand").
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I have received personal criticism in nasty sniping ways, even being accused publicly of taking a backhander.
But no vibration of any such impatience was in Merivales voice, and in his words there was no backhander to answer it.
There was no hesitation, as there has been with so many other shooters, before he fired a backhander behind the goalie.
Minnesota's Mikko Koivu beats Mighty Ducks goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere with a backhander in the shootout.
Former Arsenal chief scout Steve Burtenshaw was fined pounds 10,000 for accepting a pounds 35,000 backhander from Hauge.
Gathering the puck, he sent a backhander past the goalie, tying the game.

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