shoot up
verb
shot up; shooting up; shoots up
1
: to shoot or shoot at especially recklessly
cowboys shooting up the town
2
: to inject (a narcotic drug) into a vein
: to inject a narcotic into a vein
Examples of shoot up in a Sentence
gas prices shot up seemingly overnight
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Moments after receiving a report of a man who threatened to shoot up the world’s busiest airport while livestreaming, Atlanta Police Officer Myesha Banks spotted a man matching his description in the crowd.
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Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Mortgage rates shot up after the Federal Reserve launched its aggressive rate-hiking campaign to combat the rise of inflation in 2022.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Following the outage, the wholesale price of gas shot up by about 25 to 30 cents a gallon, forcing stations to pay about $2,000 more per truckload of gas, De Haan said.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Medicare cost While commercial insurance rates are expected to jump an average of 9% next year, and premiums for plans in the Affordable Care Act marketplace will shoot up even more, the premiums and out-of-pocket costs for Medicare recipients are expected to stay relatively stable.
—Suzanne King, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
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Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Mortgage rates shot up after the Federal Reserve launched its aggressive rate-hiking campaign to combat the rise of inflation in 2022.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Following the outage, the wholesale price of gas shot up by about 25 to 30 cents a gallon, forcing stations to pay about $2,000 more per truckload of gas, De Haan said.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Medicare cost While commercial insurance rates are expected to jump an average of 9% next year, and premiums for plans in the Affordable Care Act marketplace will shoot up even more, the premiums and out-of-pocket costs for Medicare recipients are expected to stay relatively stable.
—Suzanne King, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Shoot up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoot%20up. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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