Usually means: Arrive or increase in intensity.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. turn up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. turn-up, turn up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. turn-up, turn-up, turn up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. turn up: Vocabulary.com
  5. turn-up: Wordnik
  6. turn-up, turn up, turn up (somewhere): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. turn-up, turn up: Wiktionary
  8. turn up: Dictionary.com
  9. turn up: Rhymezone
  10. turn up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. turn up: Phrasal Verb Page
  12. turn up: Free Dictionary
  13. turn up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. turn-up, turn up: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. turn up: Legal dictionary
  2. turn up: Financial dictionary

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

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

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. turn up, turn up, turn up, turn up, turn up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Turn up: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Turn Up: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (turn up)

▸ verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc. upwards.
▸ verb:  (transitive, nautical) To belay or make fast a line on a cleat or pin.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, slang) To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of turn-up [Fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers to make them shorter.]

Similar:
show up, come on, locate, fold up, fold, come out, dig up, surface, excavate, spring up, more...

Opposite:
turn down, lower, decrease, reduce

Types:
party, rave, festival, gathering, get-together, more...

Phrases:
turn up the heat, turn up the pressure, turn up trumps, to turn up, turn nose up at, more...

Adjectives:
going, pan, put up, abroach, traverse, on board, onboard, onward, hold, ace, budge

Colors:
    neon green,     electric blue,     hot pink,     bright yellow,     lime green, more...



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Similar:
show up, come on, locate, fold up, fold, come out, dig up, surface, excavate, spring up, more...

Opposite:
turn down, lower, decrease, reduce

Types:
party, rave, festival, gathering, get-together, more...

Phrases:
turn up the heat, turn up the pressure, turn up trumps, to turn up, turn nose up at, turn up toes, a turn up for the books, turn up for the book, turn up one's nose, turn up ones nose, turn your nose up, more...

Adjectives:
going, pan, put up, abroach, traverse, on board, onboard, onward, hold, ace, budge

Colors:
    neon green,     electric blue,     hot pink,     bright yellow,     lime green, more...



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