Sekirov Dictionary

shoot up

verb 4
shoot-up noun 1
forms 4

verb4

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(figurative) 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.
•
To inject (a drug) intravenously.
- This place is always full of smackheads shooting up.
•
To fire many bullets or shells at.
- The terrorists decided to shoot up a convenience store.
•
To use up (ammunition) by shooting.
- Most of our ammunition has now been shot up.

shoot-up noun1

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(informal) A shooting; a fight with firearms.
- We haven't had that kind of a shoot-up for more than two years! — 2008

forms

shot up · shooting up · shoots up · shoot-ups

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