"crop up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-crop up.ogg [Australia] Forms: crops up [present, singular, third-person], cropping up [participle, present], cropped up [participle, past], cropped up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} crop up (third-person singular simple present crops up, present participle cropping up, simple past and past participle cropped up)
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To occur, especially suddenly or unexpectedly. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Translations (to occur): passar (Catalan), esdevenir (Catalan), succeir (Catalan), ocórrer (Catalan), gitib (Cebuano), 突然发生 (Chinese Mandarin), opduiken (Dutch), verschijnen (Dutch), ilmaantua (Finnish), auftauchen (German), ανακύπτω (anakýpto) (Greek), felbukkan (Hungarian), felmerül (Hungarian), saltare fuori (Italian), haver (Portuguese), неожи́данно обнаруживаться (neožídanno obnaruživatʹsja) (Russian), возника́ть (voznikátʹ) (Russian), presentar [pronominal] (Spanish), dyka upp (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-crop_up-en-verb-pDKqaC6K Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "to occur",
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          "sense": "to occur",
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to occur",
          "word": "saltare fuori"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to occur",
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to occur",
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to occur",
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      "code": "ceb",
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      "sense": "to occur",
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to occur",
      "word": "突然发生"
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to occur",
      "word": "opduiken"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "to occur",
      "word": "verschijnen"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to occur",
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to occur",
      "word": "auftauchen"
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      "sense": "to occur",
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      "sense": "to occur",
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      "sense": "to occur",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "to occur",
      "word": "saltare fuori"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to occur",
      "word": "haver"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "to occur",
      "word": "неожи́данно обнаруживаться"
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      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "to occur",
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      "sense": "to occur",
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to occur",
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