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

Sandisk has shot up sixfold in 2026 and still has room to run due to sky-high memory demand linked to the artificial intelligence boom, according to JPMorgan. — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026

Fremantle, however, saw a healthy jump in profits that shot up from $45 million to $69 million compared with the same period last year. — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 11 Aug. 2026

There were strobes firing at one point, fireballs shooting up from the stage at another, sparks raining down from the backdrop at yet another. — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 10 Aug. 2026

Haynes took the shotgun snap at the 10 and dropped back to the 14 before shooting up the middle, pump faking around the seven and diving into the end zone for the game-winning score. — Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026

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