Usually means: Appear or be present physically.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. show up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. show up: Merriam-Webster
  3. show up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. show up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. show up: Vocabulary.com
  6. show-up: Wordnik
  7. show up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. show up: Wiktionary
  9. show up: Dictionary.com
  10. show up: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Show Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. show up: Rhymezone
  13. show up: Phrasal Verb Page
  14. show up: FreeDictionary.org
  15. show up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. show up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Show-Up, show up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. show up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. show up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. show up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. show up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (show up)

verb:  (intransitive) To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.
verb:  (intransitive) To be easily visible; to be conspicuous.
verb:  (transitive) To make visible; to expose.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To make visible or expose faults and deficiencies in, usually by outdoing, outperforming, or outcompeting another.

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