shoot up

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