Support for the Rohingya cause across the region has a pop-up feel.
I looked up pop-up in Merriam Webster:
1: pop fly
2: a component or device that pops up
3: a pop-up book
4: a pop-up window on a computer screen
I guess pop-up feel has to do with the first definition,
so does it mean the support of the Rohingya is very high, as a pop fly is? Or does it mean something else?
Best Answer
The writer of this article is probably a native speaker (or very good with English) but that doesn't mean the article itself is particularly well-written. For example, there is a paragraph where the word "seemingly" is used at least three times, when once would be more than enough.
"A pop-up feel" is not a very elegant turn of phrase. It's not a typical or standard English idiom, so we all have to guess what the writer means by reading the rest of the paragraph:
It seems that "pop-up" means "appearing suddenly", or "without a long history". It would have been better if the writer had used the common English idiom "to pop up overnight".