Uptick

I see the noun uptick as a synonym of upturn.

As uptick is a relatively new word in England (it's relatively new to me, anyway), I suppose its use as a noun - as awkward as it sounds to you and me - is not bound by older grammar norms. But I admit that it will take me some time to get used to seeing or hearing it as a verb without it jarring on me.

Uptick in this noun context has been around for several decades meaning:

Commerce. The smallest amount by which prices (of commodities, stocks, etc.) are held to fluctuate. (OED)

Earliest recordings: in The Times in 1982 and Nat West Bank Quarterly 1985.

Verbification often happens in business and digital contexts. Words which sound clumsy at first soon become commonplace.

Do you Google or email? Have you texted? WhatsApped? Have you friended someone on other social media.

Or older verbifications: chaired a meeting, had a product shipped to you, banked some money?