pop up
informal— phrasal verb with pop uk/pɒp/us/pɑːp/verb -pp-
to appear or happen, especially suddenly or unexpectedly:
She's one of those movie stars who pops up everywhere, on TV, in magazines, on Broadway.
The words "Hard disk failure - program aborted" popped up on the screen.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Appearing & disappearing
- act
- bubble up
- come up
- conjure
- creep
- disappear off the face of the earth idiom
- do a disappearing/vanishing act idiom
- emerge
- emergence
- erupt
- evaporate
- face
- manifestation
- melt
- pop
- puff
- pull
- pull sth up
- spring
- wither
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