rocket
Forms
- Plural
- rockets
- present (v1)
- rocket
- past (v2)
- rocketed
- past participle (v3)
- rocketed
- present participle
- rocketing
- 3rd person singular
- rockets
Definitions
1.A projectile.
- As Elon Musk returns his focus to his businesses, one of his most important companies just had another setback: A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded in an immense fireball Wednesday during a routine ground test.
2.Figurative uses.
- The Burmese nurse who'd gone with her was crying, for which she'd no doubt get a rocket from matron.
- Fernandinho launched a rocket that flew just over. Gundogan's shot hit off Sviatchenko and Gordon and went out. City pressed and pressed.
- Why were the Luddites named efter Ned Ludd? A wee rocket. A wee fucken fairy bampot. A pure hooligan, smashing stuff up. A ned. Ned Ludd.
3.A leaf vegetable of species Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.
4.Any plant of the genus Eruca.
- And avoid certain aphrodisiac foods, such as onions and rockets.
1.To accelerate swiftly and powerfully.
- With Free Guy, Reynolds gets just a little more in touch with his Carrey side via nothing less than his own version of The Truman Show, shorn of its daydream dread and rocketed into the age of Fortnite.
2.To fly vertically.
3.To rise or soar rapidly.
- The cost of food in the UK had rocketed by 25% since 2019, the researchers calculated, but if the post-Brexit trade restrictions were not in place then this increase would be only 17% – nearly a third lower.
4.To experience sudden fame, popularity, or success.
- After spending years in obscurity, the band finally rocketed last week.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2974
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
From Italian rocchetta, from Old Italian rocchetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff”), from Lombardic rocko (“spinning wheel”), from Proto-West Germanic *rokkō, from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”). Cognate with Old High German rocco, rocko, roccho, rocho ("a distaff"; > German Rocken (“a distaff”)), Swedish rock (“a distaff”), Icelandic rokkur (“a distaff”), Middle English rocke (“a distaff”). More at rock⁴.