Usually means: Temporary, spontaneous setup or event.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. pop up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pop-up: Merriam-Webster
  3. pop-up, pop up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pop-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pop-up, pop-up: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pop-up, pop up: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pop-Up, Pop-up, pop-up: Wordnik
  8. pop-up, pop up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pop-up, pop up: Wiktionary
  10. pop-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pop-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pop-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pop-up, pop up: Dictionary.com
  14. Pop Up (album), Pop-up (video gaming), Pop up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. pop up: Rhymezone
  16. pop-up, pop up: FreeDictionary.org
  17. pop-up, pop up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. pop-up, pop up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pop-up: Netlingo
  2. Pop-Up: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. pop-up, pop up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pop-up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pop-up, pop up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pop-up: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pop up: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pop up)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To come up with a "pop" sound.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, informal, idiomatic) To appear without warning.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) (Of an alert, advertisement, etc.) To suddenly appear onscreen.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To display as an alert, advertisement, etc. that suddenly appears on screen.

Similar:
crop up, pop off, poppin', sproing, pipe up, snap, pop a squat, boom, pec pop, splop, more...

Opposite:
pop down, close, disappear, vanish, retract

Types:
modal, toast, alert, notification, more...

Phrases:
pop up book, pop up menu, pop up ad, pop up blocker, pop up menus, more...

Adjectives:
pop, poppy, hit, flat, sock, beat, bob, donk, dab

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

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Similar:
crop up, pop off, poppin', sproing, pipe up, snap, pop a squat, boom, pec pop, splop, more...

Opposite:
pop down, close, disappear, vanish, retract

Types:
modal, toast, alert, notification, more...

Phrases:
pop up book, pop up menu, pop up ad, pop up blocker, pop up menus, pop up toaster, to pop up, pop up out of nowhere, they may pop up while you surf, more...

Adjectives:
pop, poppy, hit, flat, sock, beat, bob, donk, dab

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



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