kick up (English, verb)
expansion: kick up (third-person singular simple present kicks up, present participle kicking up, simple past and past participle kicked up)
Senses:
glosses: To rear back; to become more active or restless; to speed up.
raw_tags: of a horse
glosses: To raise, to increase (a price).
tags: US
broadly
figuratively
informal
transitive
glosses: To stir up (trouble), to cause (a disturbance).
tags: figuratively
informal
transitive
glosses: To make more exciting.
tags: colloquial
transitive
glosses: To show anger (about something).
tags: informal
intransitive
glosses: To function improperly; to show signs of disorder; (of an illness) to flare up.
tags: US
informal
intransitive
qualifier: machinery
glosses: To move sharply upward.
glosses: To pass (something, such as a proposal or a share of a bribe) up a hierarchy or chain of command.
tags: slang
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kick, up.
tags: intransitive
transitive
Forms:
form: kicks up
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kicking up
tags: participle
present
form: kicked up
tags: participle
past
form: kicked up
tags: past