shoot-up—
1. a furious exchange of shooting; a gun battle:
- Munn was nearly killed in a shoot-up in the streets of Montreal on the very day of his landing.
2. (of prices, etc.) a quick or sudden rise:
- We haven’t seen the shoot-up in prices like other areas have, and that’s helped quite a bit.
3. (sl.) a drug injection:
- They looked like a couple of drug addicts meeting for a shoot-up in a condemned building.
upshot—the end result or conclusion of some course of action:
- We had a talk, and the upshot was that if I couldn’t feel better through prayer, it was my fault because my faith wasn’t strong enough.