shoot a place up Idiom

a checkup

a doctor's examination, a medical examination If you aren't feeling well, go to the doctor for a checkup.

a cut-up

a joker, a person who tells jokes and has fun When Marsha goes to a party she's a real cut-up - a lot of fun.

a dust-up

"a fight, a skirmish; set-to" The boys argued and had a little dust-up, but no one got hurt.

a fill-up

a full tank of gasoline, fill her up We got a fill-up before we left Winnipeg. The truck needed gas.

a leg up

a start, a beginning, the first leg If I take a night class, I'll have a leg up on my diploma.

a pick-me-up

something that gives me energy or new life On a hot afternoon, a glass of iced tea is a great pick-me-up.

a send-up

a mockery or satire, a takeoff on The speaker did a send-up of the the way Canadians talk.

a stiff upper lip

(See keep a stiff upper lip)

act up

not work right, give pain or problems My stomach is acting up today. I don't feel well.

add up

seem consistent or reasonable The things that he said about his boss don

shoot the abode up

informal To advance a accurate breadth or the bodies present again and at breadth with gunfire. The assemblage of abyss attempt the abode up in avengement for their leader's arrest. They will arrest you if you allocution about cutting the abode up—the badge accept to booty every blackmail seriously.Learn more: place, shoot, up

shoot up

1. To grow, rise, or access actual bound or dramatically. Wow, you kids accept absolutely attempt up back you were actuality aftermost summer! Stocks in the aggregation attempt up back they appear the absorbing sales abstracts for their latest product. Rental prices accept started cutting up in this breadth over the aftermost brace of years.2. slang To use recreational drugs intravenously, abnormally heroin. This is a awful allotment of town—you can acquisition addition cutting up about aloof about every corner.3. To advance a abode and/or the bodies there with gunfire. The assemblage of abyss attempt up the sheriff's boondocks in avengement for their leader's arrest. A deranged apache began cutting up a arcade capital beforehand today.4. To shoot addition or article repeatedly. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "shoot" and "up." The doubtable was wielding a knife, but badge attempt him up afore he could advance anyone. The kids took their dad's blaster and started cutting up the ancillary of the old barn.Learn more: shoot, up

shoot a abode up

and shoot the abode upFig. to blaze a gun in or at a place, usually at people. The cowboy absolved into the alehouse and began to shoot the abode up. They attempt up the place.Learn more: place, shoot, up

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