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

Here are some of the products that could be most impacted: Housing Home prices shot up in 2020 and have barely moderated since, but there’s more pain to come for potential buyers, experts say. —Alana Semuels, TIME, 4 Feb. 2025

Broward 10th-grader threatened to ‘shoot up’ high school, police say Broward 10th-grader threatened to 'shoot up' high school, police say Morning Update: South Florida’s top stories for Friday, Jan. 31, 2025 Cancer research has kept his daughter alive. —Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2025

In London, much like in New York, rents have shot up in recent years as people have flocked back to big cities after the pandemic. —Anna Cooban, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025

The driver’s door was shot up and the window was shattered. —Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1890, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1