intransitive verb
1. : to rise sharply
shoots up forty-one stories unrelieved and formidable — American Guide Series: New York City
prices shot-up
corn shot up to seventy-three cents a bushel — John Bird
hope shot up within me — Kenneth Roberts
shot up to colonel — Green Peyton
2. slang : to take an injection of a narcotic
transitive verb
: to shoot or shoot at especially promiscuously
shot up a crowd of striking miners — Atlantic
met a Russian patrol and shot them up — R.H.Newman
especially : to pass through (as a town) shooting recklessly in all directions
one of the factional leaders … shot up the town — F.L.Paxson
shoots up the countryside periodically — Henry Cavendish