kick up

Speech parts

1. kick up - Noun

2. kick up - Verb

Meaning

raising the feet backward with the hands on the ground; a first movement in doing a handstand

evoke or provoke to appear or occur

cause to rise by kicking

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

provoke evoke call forth make effect cause create begin raise jump kick cultivate stir ferment engender
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Antonyms

control prevent reduce limit drop decrease
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Hypernyms

make cause raise exercise lift exercising

Hyponyms

pick

Examples

I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy. Liam Gallagher

They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us. Irene Dunne

I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs. Johnny Weir

Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple Source: Internet

kick up dust Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

kick to the kerb kick to touch kick turn kick up a dust kick up a fuss kick up a fuss about