Crossword clues for skyrocket
skyrocket
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
skyrocket \sky"rock`et\ (sk[imac]"r[o^]k`[e^]t), v. i. To rise rapidly; -- usually used figuratively, as of prices.
skyrocket \sky"rock`et\ (sk[imac]"r[o^]k`[e^]t), n. A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fireworks.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A type of firework that uses a solid rocket engine to rise quickly into the sky where it emits a variety of effects such as stars, bangs, crackles, etc. 2 (context by extension English) A rebuke, a scolding. 3 (context rhyming slang English) pocket. vb. To increase suddenly and extremely; to shoot up; to surge or spike.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A skyrocket is a type of firework that uses a solid-fuel rocket to rise quickly into the sky. At the apex of its ascent, it is usual for a variety of effects ( stars, bangs, crackles, etc.) to be emitted. Sky rockets use various stabilisation techniques to ensure the flight follows a predictable course, often a long stick attached to the side of the motor, but also including spin-stabilisation or fins.
Skyrocket is a fictional superhero published by DC Comics. She first appeared in JLA #61 (February 2002), and was created by Kurt Busiek and Tom Grummett.
Skyrocket may refer to:
- Bottle rockets, sometimes referred to as "skyrockets" (noun)
- Skyrocket (verb), to abruptly ascend very high, as a bottle rocket
- Skyrocket, a common name for the flowering plant Ipomopsis aggregata
- Grumman XF5F Skyrocket, an airplane
- Skyrocket (comics), a fictional superhero
- Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, another airplane
- Skyrocket!, a band from Austin, Texas featuring Johnny Goudie and Trish Murphy
Usage examples of "skyrocket".
As national stockpiles of metals dwindled in the mid-1990s, the price of minerals extracted from the sea by Forte Oceanic Resources skyrocketed.
Well, one night I am sitting on the bank steps with Big Nig, the crap shooter, and a guy by the name of Skyrocket, who is nobody much, when all of a sudden I notice three guys standing on the sidewalk taking a very good long gander at me, and who are these guys but certain characters from Brooklyn by the name of Harry the Horse, and Spanish John and Little Isadore, and they are very hard characters indeed.
Big Nig and Skyrocket can see that these Brooklyn characters are taking offense at their faces and in practically no time Big Nig and Skyrocket are walking briskly up Forty-eighth Street.
Ages, at the Persians who dreamt of flying-carpets, or the Chinese who all unknowing celebrated birthdays and New Years with strung ladyfingers and high skyrockets, or some minute, some incredible second in the next hour.
Persians, who dreamt of flying carpets, or the Chinese, who all unknowing celebrated birthdays and New Years with strung ladyfingers and high skyrockets, or some minute, some incredible second in the next hour.
Consider it also on a much vaster scale--the death of the universe at the time when all energy runs out, when, according to some cosmologists, the explosion which flung the galaxies into space fades out like a skyrocket.
Consequently, any of the neighboring states could demand compensation not just for what they had been making beforehand but for what they could make if they continued to smuggle after such a regime were put in place--when they could expect to see their Iraq-related revenues skyrocket.
NSA, Strathmore had skyrocketed from head of Crypto Development to second-in-command of the entire NSA.
The article had been picked up by several other papers, and interest in the Other Side of Paradise Inn had skyrocketed, which, of course, was exactly what Emily had intended.
The government imposed price ceilings on basic food commodities as a means to forestall skyrocketing prices, but many wholesale suppliers disregarded the ceilings and demanded higher prices anyway.
With retail price controls in force and wholesale prices skyrocketing, White Castle had few other options.
An inflationary economy sent wages and prices skyrocketing before settling down to a more modest climb.
Our trip had taken us through desolate western towns and parched looking Midwestern farming communities, the lat-ter of which enjoyed none of the benefits of a skyrocketing stock market.
This resulted in skyrocketing prices for what tea was available, which on Portsmouth was tantamount to cause for a declaration of war, if only the party responsible for the catastrophe could be positively identified.
Most important from my viewpoint, the demand for big-ticket catered events had skyrocketed.