Phrasal Verb > Pop up

Phrasal Verb > Pop up

1 : to appear in usually a sudden or unexpected way

Coffee shops seem to be popping up everywhere.

New evidence has been popping up every day in the trial.

Problems kept popping up.

2 : baseball : to hit a high fly ball that does not go very far : to hit a pop fly

The batter popped up (=popped) to the second baseman.