shoot up

verb

To grow taller or larger rapidly. (figuratively, intransitive) · 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.
To fire many bullets or shells at. (transitive) · The terrorists decided to shoot up a convenience store.
To use up (ammunition) by shooting. (transitive) · Most of our ammunition has now been shot up.
To inject (a drug) intravenously. (intransitive, transitive) · This place is always full of smackheads shooting up.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, up.

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