crop up

verb

cropped up; cropping up; crops up

intransitive verb

: to come or appear when not expected

New problems crop up every day.

His name crops up frequently as a potential candidate.

Examples of crop up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

So many problems cropped up on the way to the space station that NASA eventually sent Starliner back empty and transferred the test pilots to SpaceX, pushing their homecoming into February. —arkansasonline.com, 19 Mar. 2025

Ashton Applewhite, age activist and author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, is more focused on the opportunity than the challenge, citing intergenerational initiatives that have cropped up in recent years. —Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025

In the second period, some of the same problems the B’s faced on Saturday with the long change cropped up again (they were outshot 9-4) though the Sabres did not dominate the period like Tampa did. —Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 18 Mar. 2025

The big picture: New firms tend to crop up from former administration and campaign officials following each presidency or election cycle. —Axios, 13 Mar. 2025

Word History

Etymology

Note: See note at crop entry 2

First Known Use

1844, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for crop up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup