Green’s Dictionary of Slang

kick n.8

[one ‘kicks up one’s legs’]

(US) a fit, as in a laughing kick.

[US] in Kerouac letter 5 June in Charters Letters: 1940–56 370: Bill got on a talking kick.
[US]P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 17: He didn’t say anything, and everybody fell out with a laugh kick.