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

In February 2025, the Defense Health Agency, which oversees TRICARE, acknowledged that challenges had cropped up nationwide since the transition. —Jason Kane, NBC news, 6 May 2026

Sometimes, a low-growing plant, clover, can crop up among the grass. —Lauren David, Southern Living, 1 May 2026

Kuminga showed positive flashes in the two playoff wins and clearly gave the team a scoring jolt with the second unit, but the weaknesses that held him back in Golden State still cropped up. —John Hollinger, New York Times, 1 May 2026

The environmental toll of artificial intelligence is high, and the infrastructure required to support it frequently costs the communities that it's built in – data centers cropping up across Florida have received significant pushback. —Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026

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