Kick Up

Definition: Kick Up

Kick Up

Noun

1. Raising the feet backward with the hands on the ground; a first movement in doing a handstand.

Verb

1. Cause to rise by kicking; "kick up dust".

2. Call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Kick Up

Activity

Verb: be active; Adjective: busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's way; make progress; toll; (labor); plod, persist; (persevere) a; keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling.

Discord

Get into hot water, fish in troubled waters, brawl; kick up a row, kick up a dust; turn the house out of window.

Insolence

Verb: be insolent; Adjective: bluster, vapor, swagger, swell, give oneself airs, snap one's fingers, kick up a dust; swear; (affirm); rap out oaths; roister. arrogate; assume, presume; make bold, make free; take a liberty, give an inch and take an ell.

Violence

Explode, make a row, kick up a row; boil, boil over; fume, foam, come on like a lion, bluster, rage, roar, fly off the handle, go bananas, go ape, blow one's top, blow one's cool, flip one's lid, hit the ceiling, hit the roof; fly into a rage (anger).

Crosswords: Kick Up

A Kick Up the Eighties (1981)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Kick Up Your Heels (reference)

• Kick Up Your Heels (Scott Foresman Reading Series Grade 1) (reference)

• Kick up Your Heels and Enjoy! ; Retirement at Its Best (reference)

• Kick Up Your Heels/Level 4, Book 1 (reference)

• Kick Up Your Heels/Teacher's Reference Booklet/Masters Basic Set (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Kick Up Some Heat (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Georges Bank starting to kick up a little bit. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "kick up": kick up a dust ♦ kick up a fuss ♦ kick up a racket ♦ kick up a row ♦ kick up a shine ♦ kick up a stink ♦ kick up one's heels ♦ kick up shindy ♦ kick up the dust ♦ raise or kick up dust ♦ to kick up dust. Additional references.

Albanian

skandal (furore, muss, scandal), sherr (blowup, hassle, miff, quarrel, rumpus, scrap, wrangle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نفض (adjourn, knock out, shake, split, throw up). (various references)

Bulgarian 

събирам с крак, умирам (be dying, cash in, conk, cross the styx, depart, die, end, exit, expire, fade away, go under, go west, kick in, kick off, mortify, pass, pass away, pass on, pass out, peg out, pip out, pop off, quit the scene, snuff out, step off, step out, succumb, sup with pluto, wither), скандал (affair, blowup, fracas, row, scandal, scene), хвърлям топа (croak, kick off, snuff out), врява (ado, clamor, clamour, din, discord, fracas, fuss, hubbub, hue, hurly burly, noise, noisiness, outcry, pandemonium, pother, racket, row, ruckus, rumpus, shine, to-do, tumult, uproar), вдигам (carry away, carry off, elevate, flush, get up, heave, heft, hoist, hold up, lift, pick up, pull up, purchase, put up, raise, rear, rouse, run up, take up, tip up, up), обаждам се (act up, call, look up, pipe up, strike in). (various references)

Czech

rozruch (agitation, backwash, excitement, fermentation, flap, flurry, fuss, hullabaloo, stir). (various references)

Finnish

haastaa riitaa (kick up a row, pick a quarrel). (various references)

French

faire voler, chahuter. (various references)

German

sich spreizen (give oneself airs, make a fuss, put on airs, straddle). (various references)

Hungarian

lárma (ado, blare, bluster, bobbery, clamor, clamour, din, discord, fuss, hubbub, hurly-burly, jangle, noise, noisiness, outcry, racket, row, ruckus, shindy, splatter-dash, to-do), felrúg (to kick up). (various references)

Italian

schiamazzare (brawl, cackle, gaggle, kick up a row, make a din). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

蹴立てる (to kick up), 蹴上�'る (to kick up), �'ぐ (to be alarmed, to be annoying, to be excited, to be troublesome, to clamor, to kick up a fuss, to make a noise, to make merry, to make noise). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さわぐ (to be alarmed, to be annoying, to be excited, to be troublesome, to clamor, to kick up a fuss, to make a noise, to make merry, to make noise), けたてる (to kick up), けあ�'る (to kick up). (various references)

Pig Latin

ickkay upay.(various references)

Romanian

stârni (arouse, cause, create, enkindle, excite, fan, ferment, generate, hunt out, incite, induce, invite, kindle, pander to, pique, quicken, remove, rouse, spring, start, stir, tickle), ridica (advance, aggrandize, appear, arise, arrest, ascend, assemble, balloon, bring up, build, carry up, collect, construct, convene, create, draw the cloth, elevate, encash, enhance, erect, found, get up, heave, hoist, interpose, lift, loop, Mount, muster, perk up, pick up, pitch, pose, prong, pry, put, put up, raise, receive, remove, resound, rise, round up, salt, set up, shovel, start, step up, stick up, straighten, strike, suspend, take up, up, uplift, weigh). (various references)

Russian 

шум (bluster, bobbery, bruit, charivari, chirm, clamor, clamour, clash, clutter, din, dust-up, friction, hubbub, hue, hue and cry, hullabaloo, kick-up, murmur, noise, noisiness, pother, racket, racquet, rough house, row, ruckus, rumpus, shindy, sound, turmoil, turnup, uproar, whir, whirr), пирушка (carousal, jamboree, merry-meeting, rant, revel, revelry, rout, spread, sprees, wassail, wingding). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svađanje (fall out, quarreling), ritanje. (various references)

Spanish

bronca (anger, noise, row, ruction), armar (arm, Armor, armour, assemble, bend, carry on, fit out, load, piece together, put together, reinforce, rig up, set, ship). (various references)

Swedish

virvla ut, riva ut (rip out), bråk (ado, bother, brawl, din, disturbance, dust-up, flare up, fracas, fraction, fray, fuss, hubbub, hullaballoo, hullabaloo, incident, miff, noise, rag, row, ruction, rumpus, trouble, tumult, unpleasantness, uproar, upset). (various references)

Turkish

kavga (affray, brawl, brawling, broil, bust up, conflict, contention, dispute, feud, fight, fighting, fray, jangle, jar, miff, odds, punch-up, quarrel, row, rumpus, scrap, scuffle, set to, shooting match, strife, tilt, unpleasantness, wrangle), toz kaldırmak (whirl up dust), ortalığı karıştırmak (make trouble), mesele çıkarmak (make a fuss), gürültü (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, crash, din, discord, dustup, fracas, hoi polloi, hubble bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, loudness, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, peal, pong, pother, racket, rag, razzle-dazzle, roar, roaring, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, sound, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, welter). (various references)

Ukrainian

скандал (affray, fracas, roughhouse, scandal, shine, stink, wing-ding), шум (ado, alarm, bobbery, chirm, clamor, clamour, clash, clutter, hoity toity, hubbub, loudness, noise, noisiness, oration, pother, racket, racquet, row, ruction, sound, sputter, tumult, uproar), віддача (blow back, efficiency, kickback, output, out-turn, recoil), вечірка (evening, get together, party, social), підкинути ударом ноги. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: kickup.

-2 letters: kick, pick, puck.

-3 letters: cup, ick, kip, pic, piu.

-4 letters: pi, up.

+1 letter: kickups.

+5 letters: leukoplakic.