rocket salad

Variant of rocket

rocket definition

rocket (räkit)

noun

  1. any of various devices, typically cylindrical, containing liquid or solid propellants which when ignited produce hot gases or ions that escape through a rear vent and drive the container forward by the principle of reaction: simple rockets are used mainly as fireworks, signals, and projectile weapons, while more complex rockets are used to propel guided missiles, ballistic missiles, and spacecraft
  2. a spacecraft, missile, probe, etc. propelled by a rocket

Etymology: It rocchetta, spool or bobbin, rocket, orig. dim. of rocca, distaff < OHG roccho, distaff: from the resemblance in shape

intransitive verb

  1. to go like a rocket; dart ahead swiftly
  2. to travel in a rocket
  3. to soar; rise rapidly prices rocketed

transitive verb

  1. to convey in a rocket
  2. to attack by firing a rocket at
  3. to propel with or as with sudden force a hit song rocketing a singer to stardom

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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