go up

   1. obsolete

   to be killed by hanging

   Especially in 19th-century America. Occasionally also of natural death:

    You'd better give it up if you don't want to go up. (Cookson, 1969 — the thing to be given up was working with lead paint)

   2. to be under the influence of illegal narcotics

   When you be come up², but may go down¹ if you are caught.