shoot up
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Some data even suggest that for every hour the biological clock is offset from the social clock, the chances of being overweight shoot-up by a whopping 33 percent.
From Scientific American • Feb. 11, 2014
Once again, the big shoot-up paired off two old adversaries, Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos.
From Time Magazine Archive
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How it is that in all the years this pattern has persisted no one thought to angle a few of these shoot-up shows toward women is one of TV's mysteries.
From Time Magazine Archive
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