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

Miller sat out with left shoulder soreness, which cropped up early in the second quarter of Saturday night’s loss in Philadelphia. —Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025

Similar shirtless sections have cropped up at UCLA, Wisconsin, Virginia Tech, Washington State, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Texas Tech, North Carolina, Florida International, Oregon and more, no longer reserved for only the down-bad fan bases. —Justin Williams, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025

Think about single features cropping up, like virtual try-on, image search, or conversational natural language, asking the chat bot in natural language terms to help find something. —David Moin, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025

But other challenges have cropped up, too, from dockworker strikes to ballooning construction costs. —Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 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