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Meaning of "shoot up" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHOOT UP

shoot up play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHOOT UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shoot up is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES SHOOT UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

shoot up

Drug injection

Drug injection is a method of introducing a drug into the body with a hollow needle and a syringe which is pierced through the skin into the body. It often applies to substance dependence and recreational drug use. This act is often colloquially referred to as "slamming", "shooting ", "banging", "pinning", or "jacking-up", often depending on the specific drug subculture in which the term is used. Although there are various methods of taking drugs, injection is favoured by some users as the full effects of the drug are experienced very quickly, typically in five to ten seconds. It also bypasses first-pass metabolism in the liver, resulting in a higher bioavailability for many drugs than oral ingestion would. This shorter, more intense high can lead to a dependency, both physical and psychological, developing more quickly than with other methods of taking drugs. As of 2004 there were 13.2 million people worldwide who used injection drugs of which 22% are from developed countries.

Definition of shoot up in the English dictionary

The first definition of shoot up in the dictionary is to grow or become taller very fast. Other definition of shoot up is to hit with a number of shots. Shoot up is also to spread terror throughout by lawless and wanton shooting.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHOOT UP

shoot a line
shoot craps
shoot down
shoot from the hip
shoot one´s bolt
shoot one´s load
shoot one´s mouth off
shoot oneself in the foot
shoot out
shoot the breeze
shoot the bull
shoot the sun
shoot through
shoot-´em-up
shoot-out
shoot-the-chute
shoot-to-disable
shoot-to-kill
shootable
shootaround

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHOOT UP

beat up
cut up
eat up
front up
get up
hot up
keep it up
let up
light up
lit up
live it up
mix it up
put up
root up
set up
shut up
sit up
split up
start up
straight up

Synonyms and antonyms of shoot up in the English dictionary of synonyms

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SYNONYMS OF «SHOOT UP»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «shoot up» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of shoot up

Translation of «shoot up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHOOT UP

Find out the translation of shoot up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of shoot up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shoot up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

拍起来
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

disparar
570 millions of speakers

English

shoot up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गोली मार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تبادل لاطلاق النار ما يصل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

стрелять вверх
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

atirar para cima
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আপ অঙ্কুর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

jaillir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

melonjak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

in die Höhe schießen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

撃ちまくる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

최대 촬영
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Njupuk munggah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bắn lên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शूट अप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

fırlamak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bucarsi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

strzelać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

стріляти вгору
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

trage în sus
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πυροβολούν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skiet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skjuta upp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skyte opp
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHOOT UP»

The term «shoot up» is regularly used and occupies the 65.080 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shoot up

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QUOTES WITH «SHOOT UP»

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Brandon Jay McLaren
I've seen an increasing willingness to hire Canadians for lead roles that shoot up here. When I started, they would always just fly in L.A. people to do the lead roles.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHOOT UP»

Discover the use of shoot up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shoot up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Shooting Up: Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs
Shooting Up analyzes how involvement in the production and trafficking of illicit commodities, especially drugs, affects the strength of belligerents and governments.
Vanda Felbab-Brown, 2009
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Crystal Meth
An addict will shoot up in several different places because each spot will get harder to use from the constant injections. Meth addicts suffer lots of cuts and bruises. These are usually self- inflicted. The methamphetamine makes the brain react ...
Jeremy Harrow, 2007
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Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms
At a public meeting, residents shot down two different designs for rebuilding the area. shoot for sth to try to achieve something ♢ Tennessee's women's basketball team is shooting for another season of straight victories. shoot up 1 to increase ...
Paul Heacock, 2003
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The Two-word Verb: A Dictionary of the Verb-preposition ...
2. T (2) In the gun battle one gunman shot off a finger of the other gunman's right hand. [Severed it from the hand.] shoot up T (6) In Western movies there is often a scene in which outlaws or drunken cowboys shoot up the town (the barroom, ...
George A. Meyer, 1975
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"Oh Gord! Doh Shoot Meh Nah!": The Tragedy of Extrajudicial ...
They start to shoot up we car from the junction straight up to Juman's. The car end up crashing by Juman's, and the police fire more shots in the car. When the car crash, I play dead right there. “The driver came out of the car and say, 'Boss!
Ishmael Samad, 2011
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
... is a shortening of bullshit, and means “empty talk” or “lies” shoot the works Expend all one's efforts or capital, as in He's broke after shooting the works on that new oflice building [Colloquial; first halfof 19005] Also see THE WORKs. shoot up ...
Christine Ammer, 2013
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, p 55, 1968 shoot-up; shoot-up man noun a person who promotes a card game or other activity involved in a swindle us • — Robert C. Prus and C.R.D. Sharper, Road Hustler, p. 171 ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
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The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and ...
they shoot off. —Joey V., Portrait ofJoey, p. 39, 1969 shoot (someone) out verb to train or prepare someone US, 1972 • — Bruce Jackson, Outside the Law, p. 60, 1972: “Glossary” shoot up verb to inject heroin or another drug intravenously US,  ...
Tom Dalzell, 2008
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The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and ...
... Bondi tram' AUSTRALIA, 1951 shoot up verb to inject heroin or another drug intravenously US, 1914 shoot-up; shoot-up man noun a person who promotes a card game or other activity involved in a swindle US, 1977 shooty noun a shotgun.
Terry Victor, Tom Dalzell, 2007
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ...
Such trees as love the »un do not willingly descend far into the earth ; and theiefore they are Commonly trees that shoot up much. Bacon. Onions, as they hani, will shoot forth. Bacon. The tree at once bnth upward shorts. And just as much ...
Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, 1805

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHOOT UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shoot up is used in the context of the following news items.
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Fox News guest: 'Liberals created this kid that shot up this church …
Last week on CNN, a South Carolina lawmaker recklessly blamed “things like Fox News” for inspiring Dylann Roof to allegedly shoot up the Emanuel AME ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
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Charleston shooter Dylann Roof wanted to shoot up college says …
Charleston race killer Dylann Roof originally planned to shoot up a college before changing his mind and massacring worshipers in church, according to a ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
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Frequent Fox guest: Whites might shoot up more black churches if …
A black conservative warned black Americans that more white terrorists may be encouraged to take up arms against them after the Charleston massacre – if ... «Raw Story, Jun 15»
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Man allegedly threatens to 'shoot up' daycare; parents left in the dark
A man allegedly threatened to shoot up a daycare in north St. Louis County following a confrontation with his girlfriend, but parents said daycare officials did not ... «KMOV.com, Jun 15»
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Affidavit: Man threatened to 'shoot up everyone at the stands' at …
A man carrying a gun and ammo threatened to "shoot up everyone at the stands" at Aloha High School and told emergency dispatchers that "if he saw one more ... «KPTV.com, May 15»
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Teens shoot up Garden City neighborhood
“I woke up to this popping noise and it sounded like fireworks,” said Ibanez. She says those ... A second shot hit the side of the house too. Police say at least four ... «WDIV Detroit, May 15»
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Man threatened to 'shoot up' Aloha High School stadium and …
An Aloha man faces felony weapons charges after he threatened to shoot high school students and sheriff's deputies last week, according to court records. «OregonLive.com, May 15»
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Smithville students threatened to shoot up school
Two Smithville Junior High School students allegedly threatened to shoot up their school, specifically targeting a fellow student and staff member last week, ... «Austin American-Statesman, May 15»
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Mason student sentenced for threat to 'shoot up' school
A Mason High School student was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty Friday to inducing panic on school grounds, according to Warren County Prosecutor ... «Cincinnati.com, Apr 15»
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French Jihadi Plots To Shoot Up Churches, Shoots Self Instead
French authorities announced Wednesday that a 24-year-old who planned to massacre churchgoers was thwarted when he accidentally shot himself in the leg. «Daily Caller, Apr 15»

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