Definitions for shoot up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. shoot up(verb)

    rise dramatically

    "Prices shot up overnight"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. shoot up(verb)ʃut

    to increase quickly

    The price of oil shot up again today.

  2. shoot upʃut

    to damage by firing bullets

    They shot up the gas station.

  3. shoot upʃut

    to inject an illegal drug

    a guy shooting up in the doorway

Wiktionary

  1. shoot up(Verb)

    To grow taller rapidly.

  2. shoot up(Verb)

    To fire many bullets at.

  3. shoot up(Verb)

    or To inject (a drug) intravenously.


Translations for shoot up

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

shoot up(noun)

to grow or increase rapidly

Prices have shot up.

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