pop up

See also: popup and pop-up

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Verb

pop up (third-person singular simple present pops up, present participle popping up, simple past and past participle popped up)

1. (intransitive) To come up with a "pop" sound.

   The toast is in the toaster - when it pops up it will be ready.

2. (intransitive, informal, idiomatic) To appear without warning.

   I can't remember where I left my keys, but they normally pop up somewhere.

   • 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."

3. (intransitive) (Of an alert, advertisement, etc.) To suddenly appear onscreen.
   • 1994 September 8, Kendall Bullen, “COPYRIGHT POLICY”, in rec.games.frp‎^[1] (Usenet):

     […] where you should put the disclaimer for software (somewhere that the user sees it when they start the program, tho' I wouldn't do that, just put it in the 'about' box like the mpgn.com guy suggests -- otherwise, having something pop up makes it annoyware, IMHO).

4. (transitive) To display as an alert, advertisement, etc. that suddenly appears on screen.

   My computer just popped up a warning about Internet security.

Translations

to appear without warning

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 弹出 (zh) (tánchū)

• Czech: objevit se (cs), zjevit se
• Danish: poppe op
• Dutch: opduiken (nl), te voorschijn komen
• Finnish: ilmestyä (fi), putkahtaa
• French: se pointer (fr)
• German: auftauchen (de), aufkreuzen (de)
• Greek: εμφανίζομαι (el) (emfanízomai), αναπηδώ (el) (anapidó), ξεπετιέμαι (el) (xepetiémai), αναδύομαι (el) (anadýomai)
• Hungarian: felbukkan (hu)
• Italian: spuntare (it), saltare fuori
• Spanish: aparecerse (es)
• Swedish: ploppa upp (sv)