shoot up
— Phrasal Verb with shoot /ʃuːt/ verb (past tense and past participle shot)Definition
› If a number or amount shoots up, it increases very quickly: Prices have shot up by 25%.
(Definition of shoot up from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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