shoot up

verb

shot up; shooting up; shoots up

transitive verb

: to shoot or shoot at especially recklessly

cowboys shooting up the town

: 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 Some seat prices shot up by as much as £200, or about $261. —

Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2024 But the number of people filing claims over mental stress at work is on the rise, shooting up to 2,683 from 341 over the same period of time. —

Samra Zulfaqar, CNN, 31 Aug. 2024 Greatest Hits shoots up the Billboard 200 thanks to that increase in consumption. —

Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024 Roth tries to sustain that irreverent tone for the rest of the movie (as in a scatological gag when Claptrap takes a moment after being shot up by psychos to dump the bullets he’s ingested), but very little of the humor actually lands. —

Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for shoot up

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