Definition of "shoot up"

shoot up

verb
third-person singular simple present shoots up, present participle shooting up, simple past and past participle shot up
1. (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To grow taller or larger rapidly.
2. (transitive) To fire many bullets or shells at.
  Quotations
  There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. "Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […] ."
  1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock
  The Johnston emerges from a smokescreen to find the Haruna at close range. So of course it shoots up the battleship's superstructure whilst ducking back into the smoke as Kongō tries to take it out using its main battery.
  2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:00 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?‎, archived from the original on 3 November 2022
3. (transitive) To use up [ammunition] by shooting it.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To inject (a drug) intravenously.
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot,‎ up.