WordNet
adj. propelled by (or as if propelled by) a rocket engine
Usage examples of "rocket-propelled".
The regulars had better luck with their rocket-propelled fragmentation grenades.
The astounding result is a picture of a rocket-propelled spaceship, with a landing craft docked into it perfectly - just as the lunar module was docked with the Apollo 11 spaceship!
Goose recognized the weapon immediately as a Soviet RPG-7, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher specially made for taking out tanks and personnel.
Another enemy squad fired a rocket-propelled grenade from the parking lot up toward the roof, but the round fell short by about 15 feet, smashing into the side of the structure with a great burst of fiery smoke and plaster.
He was also armed with what looked to Muss to be a rocket-propelled grenade launcher .
Two machine guns, a flame thrower, grenades, rifles, a rocket-propelled grenade.
He braced himself against a tree, shouldered a rocket-propelled grenade launcher--a Soviet-made RPG-7-and turned briefly to make certain no one was within range of the back blast.
An RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade launcher, an antitank weapon with enough penetration to punch right through the Shorlands steel armor and probably continue right out the other side.
He had been killed instantly by the earsplitting, flesh-searing burst of a rocket-propelled grenade.
A rocket-propelled grenade landed in front of his face and splashed filthy water into his eyes.
This one had been specially modified to protect its occupants from chemical, biological, and even low levels of nuclear weapons, and the walls had enough armor in them to withstand a forty-millimeter rocket-propelled grenade.
Landing two Chinooks about a half mile downstream, Dantini and 15 of his men slogged through a drainage stream that ran parallel to the main waterway, hauling five big rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
He covered her body with his own as the rocket-propelled grenade came whistling through the gates.
From a darkened window across the street, a rocket-propelled grenade streaked across the top of the crowd, through the wrought-iron gates and into the open door of the secretary's limousine.
Hunter sensed trouble just seconds before the rocket-propelled grenade landed in front of the jeep.