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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.
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| ``He had written two reports that were kicked back, and he was upset because it had never happened before. Justice John Paul Stevens favored an award to Marshall, but the majority of justices ruled that the case should be kicked back to lower courts for Marshall to pursue her claim. Study their anonymous equal in Stripper at the Show Palace caught midmove: one blue Adidas kicked back, his tube sock pulled tight around his calf, his posture taught, a bow tic ringing his neck while a magic cloud from a smoke machine occludes most of his body. |
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