shoot up

verb

shot up; shooting up; shoots up

transitive verb

1

: to shoot or shoot at especially recklessly

cowboys shooting up the town

2

: to inject (a narcotic drug) into a vein

intransitive verb

: to inject a narcotic into a vein

shoot-up

ˈshüt-ˌəp 

noun

Examples of shoot up in a Sentence

gas prices shot up seemingly overnight

Recent Examples on the Web

But Bridget Crawford, from Immigration Equality, an NGO that provides legal services for LGBTQ migrants and asylum seekers in the US, believes the numbers have shot up. — Mick Krever, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026

Meta’s Muse app, introduced earlier this month, has shot up to the top of Apple’s App Store, following the rising popularity of tools like Instinct and the open-source OpenClaw. — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

The city relocated a family whose house had been shot up, Gorton said. — Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2026

Pink and blue strobes lit up the stadium, and more fireworks shot up into the sky as Tainy dropped an incredible new beat on the song. — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1890, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Rhymes for shoot up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup