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Verb: kick up
  1. Cause to rise by kicking
    "kick up dust"
     
  2. [informal] Make appear or occur
    "Her behaviour kicked up a quarrel between the couple";
    - provoke, evoke, call forth
Noun: kick up
  1. Raising the feet backward with the hands on the ground; a first movement in doing a handstand

Derived forms: kicking up, kicks up, kick ups, kicked up

See also: call, kick

Type of: bring up, cause, do, elevate, engender, exercise, exercising, get up, lift, make, physical exercise, physical exertion, raise, workout

Part of: handstand

Encyclopedia: Kick up