English Explanatory Dictionary

shoot up

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To grow taller or larger rapidly.
  2. To fire many bullets or shells at.
  3. To use up (ammunition) by shooting.
  4. To inject (a drug) intravenously.
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, up.

Word forms

shoot up shoots up shooting up shot up

Synonyms

jack up

Related words

shoot-'em-up shoot-em-up shoot-up
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