SHOOT UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shoot up mean? 

• SHOOT UP (verb)
  The verb SHOOT UP has 1 sense:

1. rise dramatically

  Familiarity information: SHOOT UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOOT UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rise dramatically

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Prices shot up overnight

Hypernyms (to "shoot up" is one way to...):

increase (become bigger or greater in amount)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

Suddenly as we looked at her we saw a dense black cloud of smoke shoot up from her, which hung like a monstrous tree upon the sky line.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I saw a hand shoot up to clasp his.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)