Usually means: Increase or intensify activity, excitement.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. kick up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. kick-up, kick-up, kick up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. kick up: Vocabulary.com
  4. kick-up: Wordnik
  5. kick up: Wiktionary
  6. kick up: Rhymezone
  7. kick up: Free Dictionary
  8. kick up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. kick up: Dictionary/thesaurus
  10. kick up: Dictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kick up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. kick up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. kick up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (kick up)

verb:  (of a horse) To rear back; to become more active or restless; to speed up.
verb:  (informal, figuratively, by extension, transitive, US) To raise, to increase (a price).
verb:  (informal, figuratively, transitive) To stir up (trouble), to cause (a disturbance).
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To make more exciting.
verb:  (informal, intransitive) To show anger (about something).
verb:  (informal, intransitive, US) To function improperly; to show signs of disorder; (of an illness) to flare up.
verb:  (machinery) To move sharply upward.
verb:  (slang) To pass (something, such as a proposal or a share of a bribe) up a hierarchy or chain of command.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kick, up.

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