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Kick up
verb, slang
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Noun
- 1 raising the feet backward with the hands on the ground; a first movement in doing a handstand wordnet
Verb
- 1 To rear back; to become more active or restless; to speed up.
- 2 cause to rise by kicking wordnet
- 3 To raise, to increase (a price). US, broadly, figuratively, informal, transitive
"The rent has been kicked up again."
- 4 evoke or provoke to appear or occur wordnet
- 5 To stir up (trouble), to cause (a disturbance). figuratively, informal, transitive
"In truth, these little men were so far out of the reach of their masters, that they considered themselves as little less than immortal, and often kicked up a dust for the sole purpose of showing their authority."
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- 6 To make more exciting. colloquial, transitive
"kick it up a notch"
- 7 To show anger (about something). informal, intransitive
"He kicked up about it when they told him the train had been cancelled."
- 8 To function improperly; to show signs of disorder; (of an illness) to flare up. US, informal, intransitive
"The car is kicking up."
- 9 To move sharply upward.
"See, that rod there is supposed to kick up to engage the gear."
- 10 To pass (something, such as a proposal or a share of a bribe) up a hierarchy or chain of command. slang
"You have to kick up some money to the boss."
- 11 Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kick, up. intransitive, transitive
"You could tell where he had been by the cloud of dust he had kicked up."
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