I don't like people turning up without an appointment.
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Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward […]1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 16]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
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To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
I spent hours in the archives, but couldn't turn up anything on the alleged criminal.
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To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
Turn up the radio and sing along.
Turn the rhythm up, don't you wanna just Come along for the ride?2023 May 25, Dua Lipa, Caroline Ailin, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, “Dance the Night”, in Barbie the Album, performed by Dua Lipa:
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To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc., upwards.
He turned up his collar against the cold.
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Nautical, Transport To belay or make fast (a line on a cleat or pin).
Turn up the main halyard.
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Slang To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
Thirty-six were cast for death, and only one was ‘topped’ (hanged), the very one that expected to be ‘turned up’ (acquitted) for highway robbery.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
'[…] fair turned me up.' 'You get used to these things, lad,' Inspector Moss said as they trudged heavy-footed up the stairs. 'Though I know what you mean. The first time I saw a dead woman my stomach turned over. […]'1982, Julian Symons, The Detling Murders, page 117:
I was passable enough when I went with the tinker, though nothing to boast of then; but what with blowing the fire with my mouth when I was young, and spileing my complexion, and singeing my hair off, and swallering the smoke, and what with being nat’rally unfort’nate in the way of running against hot metal and marking myself by sich means, and what with having turn-ups with the tinker as I got older, almost whenever he was too far gone in drink—which was almost always—my beauty was queer, wery queer, even at that time.1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 26, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
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Card games, Games The next card taken from the top of a pack of cards and displayed.
I'll bet $10 that the next turn-up is an ace.
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Figuratively A stroke of good luck; something that appears unexpectedly; especially in turn up for the book.
Despondent settled down favourite, but ran badly, and the fielders had a fine turn up by the success of Carlton Spring, on whom Allsopp jumped off in front and stayed there.1896, Henry Smurthwaite, Racing Illustrated, volume 3, page 236:
I thought ‘now here's a turn up’, for I was not to know I would be invited to drinks every day for the next three years.2001 December 9, Andrew Martin, “We like drinking too much, so why do we do it so badly?”, in The Observer:
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Historical A book, intended for children, with flaps that can be lifted to reveal underlying text or images.
Books with flaps which lifted up and down and known as "turn-ups" came about in 1795 and were listed in Laurie and Whittle's catalogue.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 138: