kicks up

Verb

kick up (third-person singular simple present kicks up, present participle kicking up, simple past and past participle kicked up)

1. To rear back; to become more active or restless; to speed up.
2. (US, broadly, figuratively, informal, transitive) To raise, to increase (a price).
   • The rent has been kicked up again.
3. (figuratively, informal, 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.1823, James Kirke Paulding, Koningsmarke, the Long Finne, page 45
4. (colloquial, transitive) To make more exciting.
   • kick it up a notch
5. (informal, intransitive) To show anger (about something).
   • He kicked up about it when they told him the train had been cancelled.
6. (US, informal, intransitive) To function improperly; to show signs of disorder; (of an illness) to flare up.
   • The car is kicking up.

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