Overview of noun rocket

The noun rocket has 5 senses

• rocket, projectile -- (any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine)


• rocket, rocket engine -- (a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion)


• rocket, roquette, garden rocket, rocket salad, arugula, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa -- (erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender)


• rocket, skyrocket -- (propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon)


• skyrocket, rocket -- (sends a firework display high into the sky)

Overview of verb rocket

The verb rocket has 2 senses

• rocket, skyrocket -- (shoot up abruptly, like a rocket; "prices skyrocketed")


• rocket -- (propel with a rocket)