shoot-up

shoot-up

noun

Slang

The act or an instance of shooting up a drug.
A gunfight; a shootout.

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Verb

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

Used other than as an idiom. to shoot upwards
(intransitive) To grow taller rapidly.
To fire many bullets at.
(intransitive) or To inject (a drug) intravenously.

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