What is "acted up"

Usage examples of "acted up".

I always was of opinion, have ever acted up to it, and never had any reason to repent it, that one Englishman was equal to three Frenchmen.

Being himself heir to a large property, he was especially struck by the position taken up by Spencer in Social Statics, that justice forbids private landholding, and with the straightforward resoluteness of his age, had not merely spoken to prove that land could not be looked upon as private property, and written essays on that subject at the university, but had acted up to his convictions, and, considering it wrong to hold landed property, had given the small piece of land he had inherited from his father to the peasants.

I'll tell him how you've acted up to now, and your attitude, and of course that you're Med Service.

One of the plasma injectors on the starboard nacelle had acted up, and he had had to take the warp engines offline to handle the repairs.

Kids skipped and played and generally acted up, and it took some stern acting and will power to keep them pretty much in line.

Drumming on chairs might have been of no special consequence in a Bethlehem school where little boys acted up whenever they took a mind.