shoot up
verb
shot up; shooting up; shoots up
1
: to shoot or shoot at especially recklessly
cowboys shooting up the town
2
: to inject (a narcotic drug) into a vein
: to inject a narcotic into a vein
Examples of shoot up in a Sentence
gas prices shot up seemingly overnight
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But after The Late Show was unexpectedly cancelled by CBS, viewership for the show has shot up.
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Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
The price of olive oil shot up by 50% in Europe in January 2024 after a prolonged drought across Italy and Spain in 2022 and 2023, while one of the most severe droughts that Mexico has faced over the last decade also led to a 20% increase in fruit and vegetable prices that month.
—Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 22 July 2025
So there's like there's a lot of photos from just shooting up at Aspen where my tongue is just like Fully out.
—Outside Online, 16 July 2025
Food prices have been quickly climbing for years now, and now there’s another staple that could see prices soon shoot up: tomatoes.
—Alana Semuels, Time, 15 July 2025
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Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
The price of olive oil shot up by 50% in Europe in January 2024 after a prolonged drought across Italy and Spain in 2022 and 2023, while one of the most severe droughts that Mexico has faced over the last decade also led to a 20% increase in fruit and vegetable prices that month.
—Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 22 July 2025
So there's like there's a lot of photos from just shooting up at Aspen where my tongue is just like Fully out.
—Outside Online, 16 July 2025
Food prices have been quickly climbing for years now, and now there’s another staple that could see prices soon shoot up: tomatoes.
—Alana Semuels, Time, 15 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for shoot up
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“Shoot up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoot%20up. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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