English Dictionary

kick up

verb

(of a horse) To rear back; to become more active or restless; to speed up. / (informal, figuratively, by extension, transitive, US) To raise, to increase (a price).

The horse suddenly kicked up when it saw a snake.

意味（1）

(of a horse) To rear back; to become more active or restless; to speed up.

意味（2）

(informal, figuratively, by extension, transitive, US) To raise, to increase (a price).

The rent has been kicked up again.

意味（3）

(informal, figuratively, transitive) To stir up (trouble), to cause (a disturbance).

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.

意味（4）

(transitive, colloquial) To make more exciting.

Why not learn to build rustic furniture? Why not learn strength training at home? If you're married, why not kick up your sex life a notch?

意味（5）

(informal, intransitive) To show anger (about something).

He kicked up about it when they told him the train had been cancelled.

意味（6）

(informal, intransitive, US) To function improperly, to show signs of disorder, (of an illness) to flare up.

The car is kicking up.

意味（7）

(machinery) To move sharply upward.

See, that rod there is supposed to kick up to engage the gear.

意味（8）

(slang) To pass something up a hierarchy or chain of command.

You have to kick up some money to the boss.

意味（9）

(transitive, intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kick, up.

You could tell where he had been by the cloud of dust he had kicked up.