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1. Any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine
   - projectile
    
2. A jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion
   - rocket engine
    
3. Erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
   - roquette, garden rocket, rocket salad, arugula [N. Amer], Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa, rugola [N. Amer]
    
4. A projectile firework that sends a bright light high into the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon
   - skyrocket
    
5. Sends a firework display high into the sky
   - skyrocket

1. Shoot up abruptly, like a rocket
   "prices rocketed";
   - skyrocket
    
2. Propel with a rocket
    
3. Move along very quickly
   - zoom, zoom along, whizz, whizz along, barrel, bucket, belt
    
4. Attack with missiles on rockets

Derived forms: rocketing, rocketed, rockets

Type of: arise, belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, come up, firework, go up, hasten, herb, herbaceous plant, hie [archaic], hotfoot, hurry, impel, jet engine, lift, move up, pelt along, propel, pyrotechnic, race, rise, rush, rush along, speed, step on it, travel rapidly, uprise, vehicle, visual signal, zip

Part of: Eruca, genus Eruca

Encyclopedia: Rocket