shoot up

verb

shot up; shooting up; shoots up

transitive verb

: to shoot or shoot at especially recklessly

cowboys shooting up the town

: to inject (a narcotic drug) into a vein

intransitive verb

: to inject a narcotic into a vein

shoot-up

ˈshüt-ˌəp

noun

Examples of shoot up in a Sentence

gas prices shot up seemingly overnight

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After hovering around $6 billion annually, the number shot up to more than $21 billion in October, following the passage of a major infrastructure law, a climate technology law and a bill to promote semiconductor production. —

Tobias Burns, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025 Trump’s meme coin shot up after its launch Friday, from about $6.50 to $75 on Sunday, according to data from Coingecko. —

Allison Morrow, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025 Bucking worldwide trends, series season orders actually soared in Spain over 2024, shooting up from 43 a year earlier to 75, according to Ampere Analysis. —

John Hopewell, Variety, 20 Jan. 2025 But in Wednesday’s consensus report, lawmakers watched investment earnings shoot up dramatically. —

Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for shoot up