crop up

To emerge or occur incidentally or unexpectedly
The word crop has several meanings. As a noun it is a swelling on the body, or any rounded or swollen item, for example a bird's gullet, the seed head of a ripe plant or the the rear end of a horse. As a verb it means 'to cut the top or sides off' or 'to gather in' (as in cereal crops). A less well-known meaning is 'to protrude from the earth's surface'.

The context of early printed examples of the term 'crop up' doesn't help us decipher whether that 'crop' is an allusion to the growth of crops or to the 'swollen' meaning. That is because the things that were first said to have 'cropped up' were rounded items which protruded from the ground, i.e. rocks.

"Grey-wacke, and slaty limestone, conformably stratified, crop up above the ocean in the Booming isles to the north."

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make up for it

A phrase used to say that you will get sexual with someone after making them upset

"Don't worry baby I'll make up for it."

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Lights Up

A musical masterpiece written and performed by Harry Styles

"Harry's new song Lights Up is such a bop!"
"Stream Lights Up by Harry Styles"

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fire it up

To light up a joint or a blunt

Fire it up kid so we can get to kickin' it.

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roughed up

In a strict sense, the object being descibed has been subject to physical violence. When used as a slang term, the implication is that the said object is undesirable or otherwise crippled.

Strict: The police roughed up a criminal on drugs before arresting him.
Slang: "John's car is roughed up." This would imply that John's car has many undesirable qualities, eg. old, worn, broken, etc
Slang: If your grandmother cooked you a birthday cake and it looked like a lump of sand, you might say that cake is roughed up.

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holed up

Sitting at your PC - day and night - in the dark in your jammies without any human interaction.

Bob was holed up all week playing doom. He needs to get a life!

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hook up

1. recieved a good or service as a favor
2. to make out with someone
3. to have sex with someone

1. Jerry gave me the hook up with those backstage passes.
2. Sandra and I hooked up last night and her adams apple was kinda big
3. Hooking up with Derick last night was the biggest mistake in my life.

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