turn up (somewhere)
informal— phrasal verb with turn uk/tɜːn/us/tɝːn/verb
B2 to arrive or appear somewhere, usually unexpectedly or in a way that was not planned:
Do you think many people will turn up?
She turned up at my house late one night.
More examples
- Hundreds of people turned up to see the ship dock at Southampton.
- She invited loads of friends to her party, but only a handful of them turned up.
- He turned up again after a lapse of two years.
- Mikey turned up with the lost book.
- Some secret service agents turned up, all wearing the obligatory raincoat and hat.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Arriving, entering and invading
- annex
- barge
- barge in
- be on the scene idiom
- been
- breaking and entering idiom
- bugger
- go down
- intrusion
- invade
- keep (sb/sth) out
- land
- let
- let sb/sth in
- loom
- pile
- pitch
- pitch invasion
- rock
- roll up! idiom
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