Usually means: Arrive or increase in intensity.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. turn up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. turn up: Merriam-Webster
  3. turn-up, turn up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. turn-up, turn-up, turn up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. turn up: Vocabulary.com
  6. turn-up: Wordnik
  7. turn-up, turn up, turn up (somewhere): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. turn-up, turn up: Wiktionary
  9. turn up: Dictionary.com
  10. turn up: Rhymezone
  11. turn up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. turn up: Phrasal Verb Page
  13. turn up: FreeDictionary.org
  14. turn up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. turn-up, turn up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

(Note: See turn_ups as well.)

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.
verb:  (transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To acquit.
noun:  Alternative spelling of turn-up [Fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers to make them shorter.]

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