kick 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).

   cause to rise by kicking

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.

7. To move sharply upward.

   See, that rod there is supposed to kick up to engage the gear.

8. (slang)To pass (something, such as a proposal or a share of a bribe) up a hierarchy or chain of command.

   You have to kick up some money to the boss.

   Let me kick your offer up and see what the execs say.

9. (intransitive, transitive)Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kick, up.

   You could tell where he had been by the cloud of dust he had kicked up.

1. When they got into fight they kicked up a cloud of dust.

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2. The horses kicked up dust.

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3. My hay fever is kicking up.

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4. Tom kicked up into a handstand.

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5. She was kicking up her heels with delight.

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irregular

• kick upспровокувати, провокуватиTo rear back; to become more active or restless; to speed up.
• kick outвигнати, виганятиTo eject, dismiss, expel, or forcefully remove (someone or something).
• kick inдати, даватиTo kick or strike so as to cause the object struck to collapse or fall inwards.
• kick backкопати, вдаритиTo relax; to laze.
• kick offTo make the first kick in a game or part of a game.
• kick onTo activate, to turn on, especially a motor or electronic device.
• kick downTo break or demolish something by physical bodily force, especially stomping.
• kick overSynonym of turn over (to start an engine)