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

As more and more companies deploy AI in their workflows, the demand for data centers has shot up. —Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 11 June 2026

Their wine-pairing sales shot up immediately. —Lanee Lee, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026

There was briefly a chance that Widow’s Bay would shoot up in Canada and take advantage of the region’s tax incentives. —David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026

China’s factory gate prices rose at the quickest pace since 2022 last month, while in Japan — which imported almost 90% of its oil from the Middle East pre-war — producer prices shot up too, and a US CPI reading today is forecast to show the highest level of inflation in years. —Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 10 June 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