kick up
(informal, figuratively, transitive) To stir up (trouble), to cause (a disturbance).
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#1·Apr 27, 2026
(informal, figuratively, transitive) To stir up (trouble), to cause (a disturbance).
Instead, when speaking the truth, rather than getting kicked out of town or worse, getting strung up with a rope in the South, here in Boston and the North, generally they got back at troublemakers by taking your token job, kicking up th…
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#2·Apr 27, 2026
(informal, figuratively, by extension, transitive, US) To raise, to increase (a price).
When Brazil triumphed over Italy in the final, it kicked up the price of Brazilian bonds.
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#3·Apr 27, 2026
(of a horse) To rear back; to become more active or restless; to speed up.
The rent has been kicked up again.
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