Definition von shoot 'em up im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
A short story, novel, television show, film, computer game, or other narrative which depicts considerable gunplay
My wife won't watch this movie; it's a shoot ’em up.
A shoot 'em up (or shmup for short) is a computer and video game genre where the player controls a vehicle or character and fights large numbers of enemies with shooting attacks, usually of a highly stylized nature. In Japan, where the genre remains most vital, they are known simply as "shooting games." During the peak of their popularity, they were commonly called simple shooters, but as games broke into three dimensions, this term came to be more inclusive
If a drug addict shoots up, they inject a quantity of drugs into their body. Drug addicts shoot up in the back alleys We shot up heroin in the playground