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kick up

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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

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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

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