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rocket scientist

Informal a scientist specializing in rocketry: now chiefly a figurative or ironic usage in negative constructions it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out

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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