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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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