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bubble-up

noun 4
bubble up verb 2
forms 5

noun4

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An act or process of bubbling up.
- Trickle-down luxury, bubble-up status. — 2012
•
A commotion or controversy.
- Virtual teams are formed to champion specific ideas and keep them alive in the memory. Bubble-ups and meltdowns, of course, require reconstructions and maintenance. — 1991
•
Something that causes effervescence.
- Use it in the bath or shower. Instead of bath oils, bubble-ups, moisturizers. Instead of a bar of soap! — 1972
•
A culvert that is open to the air on top.
- According to information received from Caltrans, about 470 hectares (1,400 acres) south of Highway 101 drain under the freeway through several bubble-ups and culverts and discharge onto NASA property — 2002

bubble up verb2

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To move upward in bubbles or in a way suggesting bubbles.
- The kid was fascinated by the air bubbling up from the aquarium vent.
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To reach the surface; to emerge.
- Many of the old feelings bubbled up when I met her again.

forms

bubbled up · bubbling up · bubbles up · bubble ups · bubble-ups

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