show up
also show informal— phrasal verb with show uk/ʃəʊ/us/ʃoʊ/verb showed, shown
B1 to arrive somewhere in order to join a group of people, especially late or unexpectedly:
I invited him for eight o'clock, but he didn't show up until 9.30.
We were expecting 30 people to come, but half of them never showed up.
More examples
- How many people showed up to the meeting?
- He was rude and unhelpful and always showed up late to work.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Arriving, entering and invading
- annex
- barge
- barge in
- be on the scene idiom
- been
- breaking and entering idiom
- bugger
- go down
- intrusion
- invade
- keep (sb/sth) out
- land
- let
- let sb/sth in
- loom
- pile
- pitch
- pitch invasion
- rock
- roll up! idiom
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