kick up

1. 1.

   cause to rise by kicking

   “kick up dust”

   Broaderraise
2. 2.

   evoke or provoke to appear or occur

   “Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple”

   Synonymsprovokeevokecall forth

   Broadercause

   Narrowerpick

1. 1.

   raising the feet backward with the hands on the ground; a first movement in doing a handstand

   Broaderexercise

   Part ofhandstand

Questions about kick up

What does kick up mean?

kick up means "cause to rise by kicking". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for kick up?

Close synonyms include provoke, evoke, call forth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kick up a common word?

kick up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.