shooting up

Injecting into veins

Shooting up has two main meanings.

In drug slang, it means injecting drugs intravenously: He started shooting up heroin at seventeen.

The other sense describes rapid upward movement—a child shooting up in height, prices shooting up overnight, a plant shooting up toward the light: The stock shot up thirty percent after the announcement.

injectingForcing liquid in
syringeMedical injection tool
needlePointed implement for sewing
tie offSecure by knotting
fixRepair or solution

heroin · rush · hit · drug paraphernalia · sprouting · growth spurt · rising · cook · cotton · track · tourniquet · mainlining · drug use · subcutaneous · spoon · works · vein · track marks

Categories

growthgrowth, grow, growing, growth rate, increase
Going Upclimb, rise, rising, upward, soaring
increasesincrease, rise, gain, boost, hike
risingrise, arise, ascend, climb, go up
drug routesoral, nasal, inhalation, injection, sublingual
drug usedose, dosage, smoke weed, injecting, drop acid

Opposites

drug use behavior

shooting upstaying sober

abstaining · quitting · detoxing · recovering · sobering up

vertical movement/trajectory

shooting upplummeting

Falling steeply and fast

plunging · dropping · falling · diving · sinking

growth rate

shooting upplummeting

Falling steeply and fast

crashing · tanking · dropping off · falling off · bottoming out

Family

shot, shoot, shooting, shoots, shooter, shotgun, upshot, shoot up, shooting star

Familiarity: Top 100,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated R