Usually means: Rapidly increase or inject drugs.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word shoot up:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. shoot up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shoot-up, shoot up: Merriam-Webster
  3. shoot up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shoot-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shoot up: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shoot up: Vocabulary.com
  7. shoot-up: Wordnik
  8. shoot up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shoot up: Wiktionary
  10. shoot-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. shoot-up, shoot up: Dictionary.com
  12. Shoot up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. shoot up: Rhymezone
  14. shoot up: FreeDictionary.org
  15. shoot up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. shoot-up, shoot up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shoot up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shoot up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shoot up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shoot up: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. shoot up, shoot up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shoot-up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. shoot up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shoot up)

verb:  (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To grow taller or larger rapidly.
verb:  (transitive) To fire many bullets or shells at.
verb:  (transitive) To use up (ammunition) by shooting.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To inject (a drug) intravenously.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, up.

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