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Verb: shoot up
  1. Rise dramatically
    "Prices shot up overnight"
     
  2. [informal] Inject oneself with a drug, esp. heroin
    "The addict would shoot up in abandoned buildings"

Derived forms: shoots up, shooting up, shot up

See also: shoot down

Type of: increase

Encyclopedia: Shoot up