shoot up

verb

Updated on: 20 Apr 2018

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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shoot-up

play \ˈshüt-ˌəp\ noun

Examples of shoot up in a Sentence

gas prices shot up seemingly overnight

Recent Examples of shoot up from the Web

The number of rooms booked by leisure travelers was up 7.1 percent, while rooms booked for group travel pegged to events such as meetings and conventions shot up 20.5 percent.

— lori rackl, chicagotribune.com, "Chicago reports record first-quarter tourism levels at city's growing inventory of hotels," 11 Apr. 2018
Suddenly, a man grabbed one of the trans women and a whoop shot up from the crowd.

— khushbu shah and emanuella grinberg, CNN, "To live openly as a transgender woman, she had to flee. In the migrant caravan, she realized she wasn't alone," 11 Apr. 2018
Mirotic has started the past four games, averaging 27 points and 11.3 rebounds while shooting 55.6 percent from the field as the the team has shot up the standings.

— william guillory, NOLA.com, "Pelicans' rotation falling into place as playoffs approach," 10 Apr. 2018
The median price, another measure that places less emphasis on high-end sales and more on the middle and low-end market, increased even more, shooting up almost 13 percent in the last year.

— ely portillo, charlotteobserver, "Here's why buying a house in Charlotte could be a big challenge this spring | Charlotte Observer," 23 Mar. 2018
As the bad father figure, who double-crosses Dignan, Caan says his lines as if his character from The Godfather, Sonny Corleone, hadn’t been shot up by the Tattaglias but had moved to Dallas to become a landscaper and small-time crook.

— christian lorentzen, The New Republic, "The earnest, ironic stylings of Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs”," 21 Mar. 2018
Gayle King, who co-hosts the newsy morning show CBS This Morning, was initially uncomfortable with the idea of broadcasting grainy cell phone footage taken by students as a gunman shot up Majory Stoneman Douglass High School on Feb. 14.

— jeremy barr, The Hollywood Reporter, "CBS News President David Rhodes Defends Decision to Air Parkland Shooting Video," 9 Mar. 2018
Karl’s risky procedure, where countless needles are stuck into or around one’s spine after they're shot up with a gene-editing vaccine, leads to a face-down and unconscious Trish seizing on a medical table.

— refinery29.com, "This Tiny Scene In Jessica Jones Season 2 Predicts Its Tragic Ending," 9 Mar. 2018
Two and a half years ago, as the cost of apartments in Portland shot up, Multnomah County gave Human Solutions more than half a million dollars to buy an old strip club, remodel it and open the family center.

— amelia templeton, The Seattle Times, "Issues plague Portland’s largest shelter for homeless kids," 25 Feb. 2018

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