Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A disturbance.
- noun A steamboat with paddle-wheel astern.
- noun In Jamaica, the water-thrush, Siurus nœvius or S. noveboracensis: so called from the way it jerks its tail, like a wagtail: more fully called
Bessy kickup. P. H. Gosse .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Local, West Indies The water thrush or accentor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable
Material thrownupward by thewheels of a movingvehicle . - noun countable A controlled
kick that sends aball upwards.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to rise by kicking
- verb evoke or provoke to appear or occur
- noun raising the feet backward with the hands on the ground; a first movement in doing a handstand
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sands and Eastman, Limericked, Victuallers, went and, with his unmitigated astonissment, hickicked at the dun and dorass against all the runes and, when challenged about the pretended hick (it was kickup and down with him) on his solemn by the imputant imputed, said simply: I appop pie oath, Phillyps Captain.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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We was wondering this dinnertime can you get your Governor if you are working for the same one and this reaches you, to give us a bit of a hand in this Palinode kickup which you will have read of in the papers.
More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949
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We was wondering this dinnertime can you get your Governor if you are working for the same one and this reaches you, to give us a bit of a hand in this Palinode kickup which you will have read of in the papers.
More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949
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Dog my cats but there's something strange in this whole kickup or my name ain't John Robinson.
Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902
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The sun set about ten o'clock, and Lady Clare and Shag greeted its last departing rays with a whinny, accompanied by a wanton kickup from the rear -- for whatever Lady Clare did Shag felt in honor bound to do, and was conscious of no disgrace in his abject and ape-like imitation.
Boyhood in Norway 1892
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The sun set about ten o'clock, and Lady Clare and Shag greeted its last departing rays with a whinny, accompanied by a wanton kickup from the rear -- for whatever
Boyhood in Norway Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871
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Expect 3. 6% QoQ growth in $ revenues; to get 30-50 bps kickup from cross currency benefit
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The kickup got Kingston over huge in the building.
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Note, in particular, the kickup of the rearmost side windows and the angle of the D-pillar this creates.
Star News Group 2009
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Steve, Suppose you were to take all the proxies that DON’T have a kickup in the region of merging with the “instrumental” record (and are not duplicated in other records), and merge them with (for example) the UAH tropospheric record at a single point (the beginning of the UAH record.
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