shoot up
verb
shot up;
shooting up;
shoots up
Definition of shoot up
1
: to shoot or shoot at especially recklessly
cowboys shooting up the town
2
: to inject (a narcotic drug) into a vein
: to inject a narcotic into a vein
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Other Words from shoot up
shoot-up
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Examples of shoot up in a Sentence
gas prices shot up seemingly overnight
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Between 1979 and 2017, real wages for the top 1 percent shot up 157 percent, but increased just 22 percent for the bottom 90 percent. — David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, "Boston’s middle class is getting crushed — does anyone care?," 30 Aug. 2019 Investigators discovered several photos and video clips taken on Paez’s personal cellphone in November 2017 that were shot up the skirt of a 16-year-old high school student, prosecutors said. — Los Angeles Times, "Ex-Fullerton policeman secretly filmed up a student’s skirt while on duty, prosecutors say," 27 Aug. 2019 The Seminoles are getting ready to face linebacker Curtis Weaver who, in two seasons, shot up to sixth on Boise State’s career sacks list with 20.5. — Chaunte'l Powell, orlandosentinel.com, "FSU QB James Blackman all business after winning starting job," 27 Aug. 2019 The woman who opened fire at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno in April 2018 and the former Marine who shot up the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks in November 2018 legally bought their handguns. — John Woolfolk, The Mercury News, "Mass shootings: How often were background checks, assault weapons and red flags a factor?," 25 Aug. 2019 The wildness that shot up in a man’s eye when his lips were yanked back to take the bit. — The Economist, "Obituary: Toni Morrison died on August 5th," 15 Aug. 2019 Soon afterward come wild blueberries, willows and birch and aspen trees that shoot up from still-living stumps and roots. — Nancy Fresco, The Conversation, "Huge wildfires in the Arctic and far North send a planetary warning," 14 Aug. 2019 The former student who later shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was such a threat in school that he was searched every morning for weapons, new testimony shows. — Megan O'matz, sun-sentinel.com, "Parkland school gunman was searched every morning at Stoneman Douglas," 26 July 2019 Midway through her use process, with her needles a foot or two from my precious baby, this woman was preparing to shoot up. — Beth Spotswood, SFChronicle.com, "So long, San Francisco," 24 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'shoot up.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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