pop up
English
Verb
pop up (third-person singular simple present pops up, present participle popping up, simple past and past participle popped up)
- To come up with a "pop" sound.
- The toast is in the toaster - when it pops up it will be ready.
- (idiomatic) To appear without warning.
- 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:
- Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
- I can't remember where I left my keys, but they normally pop up somewhere.
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Translations
to appear without warning
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