Crossword clues for act up
Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive idiomatic English) To misbehave; to cause trouble.
WordNet
v. misbehave badly; act in a silly or improper way; "The children acted up when they were not bored" [syn: carry on]
make itself felt as a recurring pain; "My arthritis is acting up again"
Wikipedia
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) is an international direct action advocacy group working to impact the lives of people with AIDS (PWAs) and the AIDS pandemic to bring about legislation, medical research and treatment and policies to ultimately bring an end to the disease by mitigating loss of health and lives.
ACT UP was effectively formed in March 1987 at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in New York. Larry Kramer was asked to speak as part of a rotating speaker series, and his well-attended speech focused on action to fight AIDS. Kramer spoke out against the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), which he perceived as politically impotent. Kramer had co-founded the GMHC but had resigned from its board of directors in 1983. According to Douglas Crimp, Kramer posed a question to the audience: "Do we want to start a new organization devoted to political action?" The answer was "a resounding yes." Approximately 300 people met two days later to form ACT UP.
Usage examples of "act up".
There's Rowdy Ralph Reed's far-Right Christians for one, and then way out at the other end of the spectrum there's ACT UP and the sensitive men and angry womyn of the PC Left.
He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal, under particular circumstances, to act up to it.
He haggled long about the price, for form's sake, to act up to his part as Nicholas Korpanoff, a plain merchant of Irkutsk.
That no man can ever act up to the pure idea of virtue does not in the least prove the chimerical nature of that concept.