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kick-up|kɪˈkʌp, ˈkɪkʌp|
[f. the phr. kick up: see kick v.1 13.]
1. The act of lifting the legs in, or as in, kicking.
1861Dickens Gt. Expect. iii, With a kick-up of his hind⁓legs and a flourish of his tail. 1882Besant All Sorts xxx. (1884) 210 You used to sing..at the Canterbury, with a character dance and a topical song and a kick-up at the finish.
2. a. A violent disturbance or row; a great to-do.
a1793J. Hunter in Jeaffreson Bk. ab. Doctors xxiii. (1862) 257, I knew nothing of this kick-up, and I ought to have been informed of it beforehand. 1812Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 246 No chance of a kick-up, or row being plann'd. 1877Besant & Rice With Harp and Crown iv. 33 Who stood between you and my lady when you had the kick-up?
b. A dance or party. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1778W. Beatty Jrnl. 1 Dec. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1908) III. 116 We Collected the Girls in the neighbourhood and had a kick up in the Evening. 1796Grose Dict. Vulgar T. (ed. 3) s.v. kicks, A kick up; a disturbance, also a hop or dance. 1899R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. x. 100 There's a little bit of a kick-up to-night with a few of us—sort of sing-song. 1910‘G. B. Lancaster’ Jim of Ranges vi. 126 ‘What d'yer do at a kick-up, Jim?’ ‘Oh, hide-an'-seek..an' kiss-in-the-ring,’ explained Jim.
3. A name given in Jamaica to two species of thrush, Siurus noveboracensis (Bessy kick-up), and Siurus aurocapillus (land kick-up).
1847Gosse Birds of Jamaica 151 When walking or standing, the tail is continually flirted up in the manner of the Wagtails, whence the local name of Kick-up. Ibid. 152 Land Kick-up..His manners are much like those of his cousin Bessy.
4. (See quots.)
1883W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 147 Kick-up, see tipper. 1893–4R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words II. 423 Kick-up, an apparatus at a pit bank, made like an iron cradle, by which a tram is turned upside down and emptied on to the screen. 1909H. Louis Dressing of Minerals 451 In larger mines it is more usual to use cars with fixed sides and to use some form of ‘Tippler’ or ‘Tumbler’ for turning the car over and thus emptying out its contents. Tipplers are of two kinds: end tipplers or ‘Kick-ups’ and side tipplers.
5. = kick n.2 1.
1901in N.E.D. s.v. Kick sb.2 1. 1923 H. J. Powell Glass-Making in Eng. ii. 22 Feet of goblets, showing hem and kick-up. Ibid. v. 74 Stability had been given by pushing upwards and inwards the base of the bulb to form the familiar ‘kick-up’ of modern wine-bottles. |