shooting up

Verb

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

1. (figuratively, intransitive, sometimes) To grow taller or larger rapidly.
   • Our operating costs have shot up due to the fuel shortage.
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.

   Synonyms:

   jack up

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