shoot up

Definitions

1. 1

   To grow taller or larger rapidly.

   • Our operating costs have shot up due to the fuel shortage.
   • He was a small child, but shot up when he reached his teenage years.
   • As a result, prices have shot up. One hundred kilos of extra virgin olive oil from Jaén in Spain cost €787 in November last year, up from €262.50 five years earlier, making olive oil a more attractive market for fraudsters.
2. 2

   To fire many bullets or shells at.

   • The terrorists decided to shoot up a convenience store.
3. 3

   To use up (ammunition) by shooting.

   • Most of our ammunition has now been shot up.
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   1. 4

      To inject (a drug) intravenously.

      • This place is always full of smackheads shooting up.
      • For did we not, all of us, know scores of friends who used drugs to energize their workouts, who smoked dope, took speed, and shot up anabolic steroids to facilitate that mad, muscular frenzy?
   2. 5

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, up.

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