Retaliate; avenge

Usage examples of payback.

For more than half an hour, as the agents waited outside, the five-foot-six-inch terrorist haggled with Galasso and Atkinson to up his payback.

Billy had kept Cottle on the porch past the five-minute deadline, the freak might be playing payback, making them wait so their nerves would fray a little, to teach them not to screw with the big dog.

And in the payback department, the nats have handed us jokers a world-class IOU.

People borrowed from one another in a complex sociogram of debt, and the elaboration of the payback schemes was often strained.

He was disgusted by his eagerness to tear down Amadori as payback for Martha Mackall-even though it was someone else who had planned and carried out her murder.

With our old drook President Star inov resigning and the nationalist opposition coming on strong again, I figured we might be looking at payback for helping him hang onto his Kremlin office suite awhile back.

Tom may have taken the moral high ground, acting from his lofty-sounding principles, but the fact is he left you with nothing and this is your payback.

These new guys got out of the city just ahead of Finn's people, and they're keen as mustard to get some payback, by helping us with our site set-up.

The ones dying are Morgans, coming up from other parts of the country, looking for payback, meeting up with corb&aelig.

The ones dying are Morgans, coming up from other parts of the country, looking for payback, meeting up with corbæ before they can get to me in the jail.

The odd numbers were loan investment profits, tallied in over and above payback interest.

Ill cut Sam and the Pension Fund in for 50% of my profits plus my payback and vigorish.

Filmed as Point Blank with Lee Marvin and Payback with Mel Gibson.

She'd sold a couple of short stories to magazines that paid in copies and criticism, two or three magazine articles for three-figure paybacks, and one lamentable concept for a slasher film that never got beyond the talking stage.