shoot up
verb
shot up; shooting up; shoots 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
Examples of shoot up in a Sentence
gas prices shot up seemingly overnight
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Two gunmen shooting up a busy commuter bus and bus stop in Jerusalem, leaving six dead and many more injured.
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Greg Palkot, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Allen reassigned one of his deputies and later blamed the shortage of personnel for the failure to maintain a perimeter around a home where a man had threatened to shoot up a pharmacy and a mall.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
Shares of the companies have shot up in the past five years, with Costco’s stock up about 215% and BJ’s up about 305% since the day the Covid pandemic began in March 2020.
—Melissa Repko, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025
Chamberlain said there wasn’t an opportunity for officers to do crisis intervention when the suspect threatened to shoot up a business.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025
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Greg Palkot, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Allen reassigned one of his deputies and later blamed the shortage of personnel for the failure to maintain a perimeter around a home where a man had threatened to shoot up a pharmacy and a mall.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
Shares of the companies have shot up in the past five years, with Costco’s stock up about 215% and BJ’s up about 305% since the day the Covid pandemic began in March 2020.
—Melissa Repko, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025
Chamberlain said there wasn’t an opportunity for officers to do crisis intervention when the suspect threatened to shoot up a business.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Shoot up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoot%20up. Accessed 23 Sep. 2025.
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