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Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) An act of revenge. 2 (context countable English) A form of recompense.
WordNet
n. financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)
the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution" [syn: vengeance, retribution]
Wikipedia
Payback is a videogame by Apex Designs. It was originally one fan's project to make an Amiga clone of Grand Theft Auto. In the author's own words, "every effort has been made to ensure that Payback beats GTA in every way."
The latest version of Payback, is called Payback 2 which was released 4 October 2012 for iOS.
The game was eventually expanded into a commercial release, and in 2002 Apex Designs announced plans to bring it to Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and the Game Boy Advance (GBA). The Mac version was speedily released, but there is still no word on the Windows version's released date. A version for the GP2X handheld has since been released.
Despite the game being a clone of GTA, even copying car names such as the "Mundaneo", Rockstar has made no attempt to stop Apex Designs from publishing this game, or warn them about infringing on their copyrighted materials.
The GBA version was also finished, but Apex Designs couldn't initially find a publisher. After numerous failed attempts to get it published, it was not until late 2004 that DSI Games finally picked up the game.
The game features a full 3D game engine with area-of-effect explosions and complex car handling. Skid marks can be seen clearly, and vehicles smoke when heavily damaged. The intro is converted from an AVI movie, and is one of the most complicated examples of GBA movie footage outside of the Game Boy Advance Video releases. The game is considered a benchmark of the GBA's capabilities, and few games before it had featured such a complex 3D engine.
It features eleven cities in the Game Boy Advance version.
An iOS version of Payback was announced on December 29, 2008 and released on January 28, 2009. It contains all the features of the GP2X version. The developers announced that it was going to be released on January 15; however due to a bug, it was pushed back to January 28. A behind-the-scenes report is listed on their website.
Payback may refer to:
- Revenge, a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance
Payback may also refer to:
Payback is a television show on the Speed Channel that debuted in 2006. In the show, celebrities who have made it big pay back one of the people in their lives who in the past helped them along the way to their success, by building them a tricked out, one of a kind, new car designed specifically for them.
Payback is a 1995 thriller film directed by Anthony Hickox and written by Sam Bernard. It stars C. Thomas Howell and Joan Severance.
Payback is a loyalty program for customers of retail businesses, with which shoppers can collect points for purchases and redeem them for vouchers, goods or money. Payback was launched in 2000 by Loyalty Partner GmbH of Munich, and operated initially only in Germany before expanding internationally to Poland, India, Mexico and Italy. In 2011 Loyalty Partner was acquired by American Express.
Loyalty Partner received a German Big Brother Award in 2000 reflecting criticism of a perceived intrusion on individual privacy by Payback recording and analyzing its members' purchasing behavior.
"Payback" is the pilot episode of the police procedural television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the first spinoff of the original Law & Order series. It originally aired on NBC in the United States on Monday, September 20, 1999. In the episode, the detectives of the Special Victims Unit investigate a taxi-cab driver's brutal murder and castration. Detective Olivia Benson ( Mariska Hargitay) becomes personally involved in the case after discovering that the taxi driver was a rapist and murderer himself.
Payback is a 1999 American neo-noir crime film written and directed by Brian Helgeland in his directorial debut, and starring Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello and David Paymer. It was based on the novel The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake using the pseudonym Richard Stark, which had earlier been adapted into the 1967 film noir classic Point Blank, directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin. Helgeland in 2006 issued a director's cut that differs substantially from the version released by the studio.
Payback is a Hindi thriller film, directed by Sachin P. Karande and produced by Sarosh Khan. The film released on 17 December 2010 under the Archangel Entertainment banner.
Payback is American rapper/producer Danny!'s seventh studio album, originally scheduled for a January 17 domestic release. Nicknamed "Project Lucky Seven" during its inception, Payback was recorded primarily during the summer of 2011 shortly after Where Is Danny?'s re-release via Interscope Records. After a quiet exodus from the label Danny! subsequently signed to a rebooted Okayplayer Records, which had been on hiatus since 2004; a release date was finally slated for September 25. Payback was notable not only for establishing Danny! into the mainstream—propelled by a promotional appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon alongside The Roots the week prior to the record's release—but also for boasting an eclectic roster of featured artists; actress Amber Tamblyn, for example, makes a surprise cameo appearance during the epilogue of "Evil".
Payback is a 2012 documentary film from Jennifer Baichwal based on Margaret Atwood's Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, which investigates the concept of debt in societies across the world (and not only on a monetary level).
As a Canadian, Baichwal was quite familiar with Atwood's reputation:
A number of prominent intellectuals provide commentary, including economist and writer Raj Patel, ecologist William E. Rees, historian of religions Karen Armstrong, and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour.
The film is produced by Ravida Din for the National Film Board of Canada. It premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Payback is distributed by Zeitgeist Films, which also distributed Baichwal's previous works Act of God and Manufactured Landscapes. The film is being distributed in Canada by Mongrel Media, beginning March 2012.
Payback (2013) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It took place on June 16, 2013 at the Allstate Arena in Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois. It was the first annual Payback event, and replaces No Way Out. The event received 186,000 buys, down from the last year's No Way Out pay per view of 194,000.
Payback (2014) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It took place on June 1, 2014 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois It was the second WWE pay-per-view held under the Payback name, the first having been held in 2013 at the same venue.
Nine matches (including the pre-show) took place at the event. In the main event, The Shield ( Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns) defeated Evolution ( Triple H, Randy Orton and Batista) in a No Holds Barred six-man tag team elimination match. It was the first WWE pay-per-view since Armageddon (2006) not to feature a World Championship match. Payback drew 67,000 buys (excluding WWE Network views), down from previous year's 186,000 buys.
"Payback" is a song recorded by American country music group Rascal Flatts. It was released in June 2014 as the second single from their ninth studio album, Rewind. The song was written by Aaron Eshuis, Neil Mason and Ryan Hurd.
"Payback" is a song by the band Flaw. The song was released as a single from their major-label debut Through the Eyes.
"Payback" is a song recorded by Swedish progressive house duo Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman and Greek-Swedish DJ and music producer Steve Angello.
Payback (2015) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It took place on May 17, 2015, at the Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, Maryland. It was the third event under the Payback chronology, and the first Payback held outside of the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois. Payback was available for free to new subscribers on WWE's monthly subscription service, the WWE Network in over 140 countries.
Nine matches took place at the event, with two matches on the pre-show. In the main event, Seth Rollins defeated Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose and Randy Orton in a Fatal 4-Way match to retain the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. The event has sold 54,000 buys (excluding WWE Network views), down from the previous year's 67,000 buys.
Payback (2016) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and WWE Network event, produced by WWE. It took place on May 1, 2016, at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois. It was the fourth event in the Payback chronology. Eight matches were contested at the event, with two being shown on the pre-show. In the main event, Roman Reigns defeated AJ Styles to retain the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Critics gave mixed reactions for the event and mocked WWE for promoting the event as the start of a "new era" despite employing several storylines they have been using since the late 1990s.
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 corbæ.
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.