shoot up

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shoot up (third-person singular simple present shoots up, present participle shooting up, simple past and past participle shot up)

  1. (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To grow taller or larger rapidly.
    Our operating costs have shot up due to the fuel shortage.
    He was a small child, but shot up when he reached his teenage years.
  2. (transitive) To fire many bullets or shells at.
    Continuing their rampage, the terrorists decided to go shoot up a convenience store.
    • 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
      There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. "Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up [] ."
    • 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:00 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?[1], archived from the original on 3 November 2022:
      The Johnston emerges from a smokescreen to find the Haruna at close range. So of course it shoots up the battleship's superstructure whilst ducking back into the smoke as Kongō tries to take it out using its main battery.
  3. (transitive) To use up [ammunition] by shooting it.
    The .55 Boys cartridge is no longer in production. For a while, it was cheaply available as surplus, but most of the existing stocks of it have now been shot up.
  4. (intransitive, transitive) To inject (a drug) intravenously.
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot,‎ up.

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