subs. (common).—A row. Also ROWDINESS.
c. 1794. WOLCOT (‘Peter Pindar’), Odes of Condolence, in Wks. (1794), iii. 259. There’d be a pretty KICK-UP—what a squall.
1850. F. E. SMEDLEY, Frank Fairlegh, p. 132. ‘I tell you what,’ said Lawless, ‘the row and bother, and the whole KICK-UP altogether, has made me alarmingly hungry.’
1864. DICKENS, Our Mutual Friend, III. xiii. Not at all caring for … the precious KICK-UP and row that will come off.
1892. MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, p. 69. As to colour, and KICK-UP, our party was well to the front.
