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kick
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kick [kik]
(petroleum engineering)
Entry of fluid into the wellbore when the pressure of the column of drilling fluid is insufficient to withstand the pressure of the fluids in the formation being drilled.
(ordnance)
Violent backward movement of a gun after being fired, caused by the rearward force of the propellant gases acting on the gun.
kick
In a brick, a shallow indent or frog.
kick - [IRC] To cause somebody to be removed from a IRC channel, an option only available to CHOPs. This is an extreme measure, often used to combat extreme flamage or flooding, but sometimes used at the chop's whim. Compare gun.
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Great stuff, but there can only be one winner and the prize - dinner for two with yours truly at a restaurant review - goes to Ronnie Dunnet for this wee collection of crackers: Deep Sore Throat, Get Catheter, The Spy Who Loved ME, Broken Back Mountain, Catscan On A Hot Tin Roof, The Night Of The General's Anaesthetic, Kick The Bucket List, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Pharmacy, Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Kidney Stone.
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They hatch a plan to escape the hospital room and do everything they've ever wanted to do in life, before they kick the bucket, which predictably includes liaising with fast women and sky diving.
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I promised myself that before I kick the bucket, I'd become a decent jazz player," the New York Post quoted him as telling the new issue of Flaunt.
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