Usually means: Rise, emerge, or become prominent.
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  1. come up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. come up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. come up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. come up: Vocabulary.com
  5. come-up: Wordnik
  6. come up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. come up: Wiktionary
  8. come up: Dictionary.com
  9. The Come Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. come up: Rhymezone
  11. Come Up: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. come up: Free Dictionary
  13. come up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. come up: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. come up: Encyclopedia

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  1. come up: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. come up, come up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Come up: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. come-up, come up, come up, the come up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (come up)

verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, up.
verb:  (intransitive) To come towards; to approach.
verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
verb:  (intransitive) To be revealed to have a certain value, quality, or status.
verb:  (intransitive) To come to attention and present oneself; to arrive or appear.
verb:  (intransitive) To appear (before a judge or court).
verb:  (intransitive) To draw near in time.
verb:  (intransitive) To approach a time or scheduled event.
verb:  (intransitive) To reach in height.
verb:  (intransitive, of a heavenly body) To rise (above the horizon).
verb:  (British, slang, intransitive) To begin to feel the effects of a recreational drug.
verb:  (UK, Oxford University, intransitive) To arrive at the university. (Compare go down, send down.)
verb:  (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To happen or occur.
verb:  (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To grow up; to experience a childhood.
verb:  (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To do well or be successful.
noun:  An opportunity

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