rocket
/ˈɹɑk.ɪt/ noun B2- A cylindrical projectile that can be fired to a great height through combustion, (specifically) a type of firework of this form, typically exploding with light and colour; a skyrocket.
- A blunt lance head used in jousting.
- A long vehicle or craft propelled by a rocket engine; a missile or rocket-propelled spacecraft.
- An engine operating similarly to the pyrotechnic, generating thrust by the expulsion of hot gases; a rocket engine.
- Something that travels high in the air or with great speed; especially (sport), a hard shot.
- An ace (the playing card).
- A very physically attractive woman.
Plural rockets
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Anne flew up like a rocket.
The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.
_Then join our leaping lines that scumfish through the pines, That rocket by where, light and high, the wild grape swings.
Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, (“That’s Bill,” thought Alice,) “Well, I hardly know—No more, thank ye; I’m better now—but I’m a deal too flustered to tell you—all I know is, something comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes like a sky-rocket!”
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