rocket

Meanings

Plural: rockets

Noun

any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine
a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion
erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon
sends a firework display high into the sky
A projectile.
A cylindrical projectile that can be fired to a great height through combustion, (specifically) a type of firework of this form, typically exploding with light and colour; a skyrocket.
A projectile.
A blunt lance head used in jousting.
A projectile.
A long vehicle or craft propelled by a rocket engine; a missile or rocket-propelled spacecraft.
A projectile.
An engine operating similarly to the pyrotechnic, generating thrust by the expulsion of hot gases; a rocket engine.
Figurative uses.
Something that travels high in the air and/or with great speed; especially (sport), a hard shot.
Figurative uses.
A severe reprimand; a telling-off.
Figurative uses.
An ace (the playing card).
Figurative uses.
A stupid or crazy person.
Figurative uses.
A very physically attractive woman.
A leaf vegetable of species Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.
Any plant of the genus Eruca.
Rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis, syn. Delphinium consolida).

Verb

shoot up abruptly, like a rocket
- "prices skyrocketed"
propel with a rocket
To accelerate swiftly and powerfully.
To fly vertically.
To rise or soar rapidly.
To experience sudden fame, popularity, or success.
To carry something in a rocket.
To attack something with rockets.

Origin / Etymology

From Italian rocchetta, from Old Italian rocchetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff”), from Lombardic rocko (“spinning wheel”), from Proto-West Germanic *rokkō, from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”). Cognate with Old High German rocco, rocko, roccho, rocho ("a distaff"; > German Rocken (“a distaff”)), Swedish rock (“a distaff”), Icelandic rokkur (“a distaff”), Middle English rocke (“a distaff”). More at rock⁴.
For the meaning development, compare fuselage, ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spindle, spinning wheel”).

Synonyms

arugula, eruca, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa, garden rocket, projectile, rocket engine, rocket salad, roquette, skyrocket

Scrabble Score: 12

rocket is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
rocket is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rocket is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

rocket is a valid Words With Friends word