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Definition of Kick up

1. Verb. Cause to rise by kicking. "Kick up dust"

2. Noun. Raising the feet backward with the hands on the ground; a first movement in doing a handstand.

3. Verb. Evoke or provoke to appear or occur. "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"

Definition of Kick up

1. Verb. (transitive intransitive) (&lit kick up) ¹

2. Verb. (context: figuratively by extension transitive US) To raise, to increase (a price). ¹

3. Verb. (context: figuratively transitive) To stir up (trouble), to cause (a disturbance). ¹

4. Verb. (idiomatic intransitive) To show anger (about something). ¹

5. Verb. (idiomatic intransitive US) To function improperly, to show signs of disorder, (of an illness) to flare up. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kick Up

kick start kick started kick starter kick starting kick starts kick the bucket kick the can kick the can down the road kick the habit kick the tires

kick the tires and light the fires kick the tyres kick the wheels kick to the curb kick turn kick up (current term) kick up a fuss kick up one's heels kick up the arse kick upstairs

kick wheel kick with the other foot kickable kickapoos kickaround kickarounds kickback kickbacks kickball

Literary usage of Kick up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bookman (1903)
"Tested by sales and the amount of dust he has managed to kick up, Mr. Kipling should be a poet of parts. But Angus McNeill assures us that he has already ..."

2. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Would swagger, swear, get drunk, kick up a riot, Swaggering. Then staggering, an' swaggering, The Rights of Woman. He roar'd this ditty up . ..."

3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"—The Culture of the Misses: The St. James's Gazette. (Common), to bully, to make a kick up or riot. None of your flaring up, ..."

4. The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"Any one who has come to grief by fast living is said to have KICKED OVER THE TRACES. kick up, a noise or disturbance. kick up, " to kick up a row," to ..."

5. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"To kick the bucket is to be hung on the balk or bucket by the heels. kick up a Row (71/). To create • disturbance. "A pretty kick up" ш а great disturbance. ..."

6. Songs of the Late Charles Dibdin: With a Memoir by Charles Dibdin (1850)
"YOUR grave politicians may kick up a rout Of invasions and such sort of stuff, With as how, and as what, all the French are about, Why, lord, they're about ..."

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