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1. A cylindrical device that can be self-propelled high into the air by combustion of its fuel
    
2. Any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine
   - projectile
    
3. A jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion
   - rocket engine
    
4. Erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
   - roquette, garden rocket, rocket salad, arugula [N. Amer], Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa, rucola [N. Amer], rugola [N. Amer]
    
5. A projectile firework that sends a bright light high into the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon
   - skyrocket
    
6. Sends a firework display high into the sky
   - skyrocket

1. Shoot up abruptly, like a rocket
   "prices rocketed";
   - skyrocket
    
2. Propel with a rocket
    
3. [informal] Move or travel very quickly
   - rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie [archaic], speed, race, pelt along [informal], rush along, bucket along [informal], belt along [informal], step on it [informal], travel rapidly, hurry, zip [informal], zoom, zoom along, whizz [informal], whizz along [informal], bucket [informal], wing [informal], pelt [informal], barrel [informal], belt [informal]
    
4. Attack with missiles on rockets

Derived forms: rockets, rocketing, rocketed

Type of: arise, come up, firework, go, go up, herb, herbaceous plant, impel, jet engine, lift, locomote, move, move up, propel, pyrotechnic, rise, travel, uprise, vehicle, visual signal

Part of: Eruca, genus Eruca

Encyclopedia: Rocket, Charles