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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 - [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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The sort of ideas that the assembled architects kicked around Tuesday -- like densifying around mass-transit systems, and making better use of the city's resources -- are the sort of ideas the city needs to implement now.
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The possibility of converting the nearby Barrydowne Arena into an indoor soccer complex has also been kicked around.
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We've kicked around the idea of a concept for the next album, but we don't know.
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