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Show up   /ʃoʊ əp/   Listen
Show up

verb
1.
Appear or become visible; make a showing.  Synonyms: come on, come out, surface, turn up.  "I hope the list key is going to surface again"
2.
Be or become visible or noticeable.  Synonym: show.  "The dirty side will show"






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"Show up" Quotes from Famous Books



... times. We made the Mid-Glacier Depot in Latitude 84 degrees 33 minutes 6 seconds S., Longitude 169 degrees 22 minutes 2 seconds E., and set therein one half-week's provision. We marked the depot cairn with bamboo and red flag to show up against the ice as well as to contrast with the land. Hitherto only black flags had ...
— South with Scott • Edward R. G. R. Evans

... concluded, "we were just hoping that the real 'U-13' wouldn't show up and claim the package that ...
— Boy Scouts in the North Sea - The Mystery of a Sub • G. Harvey Ralphson

... can easily make yourselves. The Japanese beetle avoids shade, except on the hottest days, and its feeding in dense trees shows up most in the tops; its feeding on uniform plantings tends to show up most in the edge rows. Nursery-size trees are more extensively defoliated than larger ones. At this point we must consider that the insect usually has to fly into a planting from the outside, for it breeds chiefly in lawns and meadows. If the foliage mass of the nut planting ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting • Various

... the mind of a good animal is the reward idea. Many a really bad animal goes through its share of the performance solely to secure the bit of meat, the lump of sugar or the prized biscuit that never fails to show up at ...
— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday

... know, old top!" chuckled Hicks, though he was sure he could never fulfill that promise, as he had not played three-fourths of a season on both the football and the baseball teams, "Something may show up at ...
— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice


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