shoot
verb [T] (DRUG) /ʃuːt/ (shot, shot) slangDefinition
› to take an illegal drug by injecting yourself with it: By the time he was 16, he was shooting heroin twice a day.Drugs - general wordsSpecific types of drug
(Definition of shoot verb (DRUG) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- be as high as a kite idiom
- bombed adjective
- crank noun (DRUG)
- doped up adjective
- freebasing noun
- mainline verb
- narcotic noun
- OD verb
- pop verb (PUT)
- pusher noun
- shooting gallery noun (DRUGS)
- smashed adjective
- soft adjective (DRUGS)
- strung out adjective
- substance abuse noun
- substance noun (MATERIAL)
- trip verb (EXPERIENCE)
- wasted adjective (DRUNK)
- wean sb off sth phrasal verb
- wiped out adjective (DRUNK)
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