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Definition of Crop up
1. Verb. Appear suddenly or unexpectedly. "He suddenly popped up out of nowhere"
Definition of Crop up
1. Verb. (intransitive idiomatic) To occur, especially suddenly or unexpectedly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crop Up
Literary usage of Crop up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine (1869)
"When you do nee the effect of it, it will crop up in so hideous, so gigantic a
form, that it will all but defy your efforts to beat down the giant that ú ..."
2. Modern Carpentry: A Practical Manual by Frederick Thomas Hodgson (1917)
"... fully equipped with a knowledge of general mathematics and geometry, is in a
much better position to solve the work problems that crop up daily, ..."
3. Debow's Review, Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress and Resources by R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, William MacCreary Burwell, James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1850)
"... of a considerably higher average classification than was attained for the crop
of 1848. The sales of new crop up to this date amount to 200 bales, ..."
4. Modern Carpentry: A Practical Manual by Frederick Thomas Hodgson (1917)
"... fully equipped with a knowledge of general mathematics and geometry, is in a
much better position to solve the work problems that crop up daily, ..."
5. Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Several Matters by Great Britain Coal Commission, Coal Commission, George Douglas Campbell Argyll, Great Britain (1871)
"If it be a basin, and if the beds underneath the Coal measures crop up to the
... Are you prepared to say whether the coals take a decided crop up at the ..."
6. The Medical Times and Gazette (1867)
"But, at the same time, there are various subjects which may crop up during the
recess, which it would naturally become the duty of one of the officers of ..."
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