shoot up

1. (figuratively, intransitive, sometimes)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.

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2. (transitive)To fire many bullets or shells at.

   The terrorists decided to shoot up a convenience store.

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

   Most of our ammunition has now been shot up.

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

   This place is always full of smackheads shooting up.

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

1. It's a shoot-'em-up western.

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2. The corn seems to be shooting up already.

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3. The cannon! They're loading the cannon! Why? Ah! They're going to shoot! Pick up speed - one, two, one, two!

   ruПушка! Они заряжают пушку! Зачем? А! Они будут стрелять! Прибавить ходу - раз-два, раз-два! — Ooneykcall

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• shoot offстріляти, вистрілитиTo leave quickly.
• shoot downзбити, збиватиTo cause to fall by shooting.
• shoot upTo grow taller or larger rapidly.
• shoot outTo destroy something or remove something from its usual location by shooting.
• shoot backUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, back.
• shoot aroundTo record footage in the absence of (one of the actors), with the intention of editing in their sequences at a later stage.
• shoot throughTo leave, to disappear.