PAYBACK

Payback

Payback is a 1999 American crime thriller directed by Brian Helgeland and starring Mel Gibson. The film shares the same source material as the 1967 noir-classic Point Blank, directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin; both are based on the book The Hunter, written by Donald E. Westlake under the pseudonym of Richard Stark.

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pay back

Verb

  1. to pay an amount of money owed to another, to repay
    He paid her back with interest.
    He paid back all the money he owed her.
  2. to exact revenge
    He paid them back for their conniving.


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payback

Noun

  1. An act of revenge.
    They beat us last year, so this year's win was payback.
  2. A form of recompense.


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