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
Recent Examples on the Web
Yes, but: Our evening transactions shot up even higher in mid-2021 and 2022, after COVID vaccines were readily available.
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Jessica Boehm, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
Tax-free shopping to June shot up by 32% at the 227-year-old landmark as wealthy international tourists flocking to Norway’s capital spiked.
—Kevin Rozario, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
For instance, Advanced Micro Devices gained 2.87% and Tesla shot up more than 4%.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2024
In his nine starts against teams other than the last-place Colorado Rockies, that number shoots up to 6.15.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
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Jessica Boehm, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
Tax-free shopping to June shot up by 32% at the 227-year-old landmark as wealthy international tourists flocking to Norway’s capital spiked.
—Kevin Rozario, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
For instance, Advanced Micro Devices gained 2.87% and Tesla shot up more than 4%.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2024
In his nine starts against teams other than the last-place Colorado Rockies, that number shoots up to 6.15.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
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“Shoot up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoot%20up. Accessed 24 Sep. 2024.
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