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shoot up
verb
Definition of shoot 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
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Examples of shoot up in a Sentence
gas prices shot up seemingly overnight
First Known Use of shoot up
1890
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