shoot up

1. 1.

   rise dramatically

   “Prices shot up overnight”

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Questions about shoot up

What does shoot up mean?

shoot up means "rise dramatically".

Is shoot up a common word?

shoot up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.