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                            Phrase(s): shoot a place up [and] shoot the place up 
Fig. to fire a gun in or at a place, usually at people.  •  The cowboy walked into the saloon and began to shoot the place up.  •  They shot up the place.
                        
                        
 
                        
                            McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs