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View synonyms for shoot-up

shoot-up

[ shoot-uhp ]

noun

, Slang.
  1. an act or instance of injecting an addictive drug intravenously.


shoot up

verb

  1. intr to grow or become taller very fast
  2. tr to hit with a number of shots
  3. tr to spread terror throughout (a place) by lawless and wanton shooting
  4. slang.
    tr to inject (someone, esp oneself) with (a drug, esp heroin)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of shoot-up1

First recorded in 1965–70; noun use of verb phrase shoot up
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Example Sentences

The prevailing wisdom has it that narcos don't shoot up the places where they invest their money.

Dickinson declined to say the name of his strip club, for fear that someone may “go there and try to shoot up the place.”

A Minnesota politician claimed most NBA teams could be shutdown and we would only notice because crime would shoot up.

I had watched her shoot up into a slender but exquisitely formed woman from a frail, awkward child.

Unfortunately, when Oceana residents discovered how to shoot up Suboxone, a black market developed for the drug.

Other children would shoot up like corn stalks, but I stayed right where I had been in the months and years past.

You see, we had no town to shoot up, so we just punctured the scenery.

An honorable member who had been expelled for the use of too strong language, returned to "shoot up" the House.

The posts are poles cut from the trees' branches and when stuck in the ground they shoot up so rapidly that they soon are trees.

Such beginnings made people think that he should soon shoot up into a giant.

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