kickup

See also: kick up

English

Etymology 1

Deverbal from kick up.

Noun

kickup (countable and uncountable, plural kickups)

  1. (uncountable) Material thrown upward by the wheels of a moving vehicle.
  2. (countable) A controlled kick that sends a ball upwards.
    Coordinate term: kickoff
  3. (countable, dated) A disturbance.
    Synonym: dustup

See also
  • (material kicked up by wheels): mudflap

Noun

kickup (plural kickups)

  1. (Caribbean) The waterthrush.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “kickup”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References
  • (disturbance): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

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