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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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Lest anyone think that this is a book-length kvetch about how things work across the Tiber from the Gregorian, no need to worry: O'Collins is an eternal optimist.
Religion booknotes by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
23) Particularly striking in this context is the depiction of the future king as a kvetch, one who at the slightest provocation bursts into an aria of passionate complaint about his treatment at the hands of his subjects, fate, even divine providence.
Reinventing romance, or the surprising effects of sympathy by Kahn, Victoria / Renaissance Quarterly
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Caldecott Medal Acceptance by TABACK, SIMMS / The Horn Book Magazine
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