| 单词 | shoot up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto shoot up ΚΠ 1692 J. Dryden Cleomenes i. i. 4 Let me but live to shadow this young Plant, From Blites and Storms; He'll soon shoot up a Heroe. to shoot up e. colloquial (originally U.S.). to shoot up: to assail (a person, thing) by shooting; to terrorize or rampage around (a place). Also R.A.F. slang of an aircraft or its pilot: to dive over (a person, thing) as if or in order to attack. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > treat violently [verb (transitive)] > rampage about (a place) to shoot up1890 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > assail with gunfire guna1679 crack1835 to shoot up1890 to light up1967 1890 Stock Grower & Farmer 18 Jan. 5/2 This so enraged the boys that they began shooting up the town. 1890 Stock Grower & Farmer 21 June 3/1 Three cowboys shot each other up. 1901 S. E. White Westerners iv. 31 If you try to shoot us up any, we'll kill every hoof you have. 1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 104/1 Armed and masked men..took entire possession of it [sc. Princeton], ‘shot it up’ until opposition subsided. 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 July 15/7 Paul Davis..wounded after ‘shooting up’ rooming houses here early yesterday morning, died in hospital today. 1937 New Statesman 20 Feb. 288/2 Mr. Partridge is not quite so strong with regard to the slang of flying... I think..to shoot-up, to dive onto, and the wind-sock should all find a place. 1946 D. Hamson We fell among Greeks xvii. 180 When he had finished unloading his parachutes and parcels, he would take a long circle round and ‘shoot us up’, i.e. dive and roar over us at less than fifty feet, and, as he zoomed up, dip his wings left and right in salute. 1973 L. M. Boston Memory in House iv. 40 A squadron would roar over the house from which one plane swooped down to shoot us up. 1976 Daily Tel. 5 July 1 The Air France airbus which was skyjacked..a week ago, was also ‘shot up’. < as lemmas |
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