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Shoot up

verb

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  1. 1
    To grow taller or larger rapidly. figuratively, intransitive, sometimes

    "Our operating costs have shot up due to the fuel shortage."

  2. 2
    rise dramatically wordnet
  3. 3
    To fire many bullets or shells at. transitive

    "The terrorists decided to shoot up a convenience store."

  4. 4
    To use up (ammunition) by shooting. transitive

    "Most of our ammunition has now been shot up."

  5. 5
    To inject (a drug) intravenously. intransitive, transitive

    "For did we not, all of us, know scores of friends who used drugs to energize their workouts, who smoked dope, took speed, and shot up anabolic steroids to facilitate that mad, muscular frenzy?"

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  1. 6
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, up.

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