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Definition of Shoot up
1. Verb. Rise dramatically. "Prices shot up overnight"
Definition of Shoot up
1. Verb. (intransitive) To grow taller rapidly. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To fire many bullets at. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) or (transitive) To inject (a drug) intravenously. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoot Up
Literary usage of Shoot up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of "Baltimore Town by John Thomas Scharf (1874)
"Flames would shoot up in several places at once from buildings in close proximity
to the fire, and in a short time there were eighteen houses on fire on ..."
2. The New American Gardener, Containing Practical Directions on the Culture of by Thomas Green Fessenden (1842)
"Nothing more is necessary to be done until they shoot up their tops; then, on a
dry day, they are earthed up, like potatoes, and kept free from weeds, ..."
3. The Principles of Agriculture by Albrecht Daniel Thaer (1844)
"... moved from the soil; as they will otherwise shoot up again like weeds, spread
very rapidly, and be difficult to eradicate. It has also been remarked ..."
4. The Book of the Garden by Charles McIntosh (1855)
"The following excellent directions have been given by Mr Appleby for proceeding
after this period : " Train the top shoot up the rafter again, repeating the ..."
5. A Chorographical and Statistical Description of the District of Columbia by David Bailie Warden (1816)
"Farmers say, that Indian corn has been found to shoot up seven inches in twenty-four
hours, and the pumpkin-stem eighteen; that they can hear the corn grow, ..."
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