rocket

Meanings

Noun

• A rocket engine.
• A non-guided missile propelled by a rocket engine.
• A vehicle propelled by a rocket engine.
• A rocket propelled firework, a skyrocket
• An ace (the playing card).
• An angry communication (such as a letter or telegram) to a subordinate.
• A blunt lance head used in jousting.
• Something that shoots high in the air.
• A stupid or crazy person.
• A very physically attractive woman.
• The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.
• rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis (species))

Verb

• To accelerate swiftly and powerfully.
• To fly vertically.
• To rise or soar rapidly.
• To carry something in a rocket.
• To attack something with rockets.

Related

Similar words

• arugula
• rocket salad

Origin

• , Swedish rock ("a distaff"), Icelandic rokkur ("a distaff"), Middle English rocke ("a distaff"). More at rock⁴.
• Borrowed from French roquette, from Italian ruchetta, diminutive of ruca, from Latin eruca. Cognate to arugula.