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

The middle of his body went first while his legs shot up into the air. —Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025

So, when Goldman Sachs announced plans on Monday to acquire Industry Ventures, eyebrows shot up. —Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025

Between July and August, the number of job openings in construction took a dramatic fall, from 303,000 to 180,000, and the number of construction workers quitting shot up from 90,000 to 146,000. —Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025

Joshua Finney, 38, is accused of sending Facebook messages to a relative threatening to shoot up Morton Ranch High School in Katy, Texas, and the Houston Zoo, ABC News affiliate ABC 13 reported. —Mason Leath, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2025

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