(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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(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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(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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