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n. A small skyrocket that can be launched from an empty bottle.
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A bottle rocket is a small skyrocket. A typical bottle rocket consists of a rocket engine attached to a stabilizing stick. The user can place the stick in an empty bottle (hence the name), and ignite the rocket engine; the mouth of the bottle guides the stick, stabilizing the rocket in its first moments of flight. In India, bottle rockets are set off during the Hindu festival of Diwali, and are sold in the millions.
These rockets have been made at least since the early decades of the 20th century, and in many countries, including Japan, China, and Macao. The older type of bottle rocket was typically a black powder skyrocket with an engine about 2 inches (5 cm) long and up to 0.375 inch (9 mm) diameter, mounted on a thin bamboo splint and often having a small report charge.
Modern bottle rockets are small and very cheap. They are often sold by the box (Although more commonly by the gross, a packet of 144 rockets) for less than $US 0.20 each. In Thailand's Isan region, many are made by hand and sold in conjunction with Rocket Festivals. The largest bottle rockets used at the festivals are Bang Fai rockets which can be up to 20 metres long and charged with up to 500 kg of black powder.
A bottle rocket is a very small skyrocket.
Bottle rocket or bottle rockets may also refer to:
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Bottle Rocket, a 1996 film
- Bottle Rocket (soundtrack), the soundtrack to that film
- Bottle Rocket (album), a Guardian album
- Bottle rocket (model), a type of model rocket using water as its reaction mass
- "Bottle Rocket" (single), a 2005 single by The Go! Team
- The Bottle Rockets, an alt-country music group
- Bottlerocket Entertainment, a video game developer
- Bottle Rocket (company), a now defunct developer of Web-based casual games and advergames from 1996 until 2000
Bottle Rocket is one of the albums from Christian rock band Guardian. The album was released on August 5, 1997 and was produced by Steve Taylor.
This album delved deeper into the alternative and grunge genre the band explored in their previous album.
As of 2006, this is the last studio album to feature bassist David Bach.
Bottle Rocket a 1997 soundtrack to the Wes Anderson film of the same name. The film's score was composed by Mark Mothersbaugh.
Three songs from the film, " 2000 Man" by The Rolling Stones, " 7 and 7 Is", and " Alone Again Or" by Love, were not included.
Bottle Rocket, Inc. was a leading developer of Web-based casual games and advergames from 1996 until 2000, when the company was acquired by ACTV, a technical and creative interactive television services company later acquired by OpenTV. Based in New York City, the company created more than 40 licensed trivia, prediction, simulation, arcade-style and multiplayer game formats played by more than 600,000 registered users, and specialized in sports-related content.
Usage examples of "bottle rocket".
He was afraid of saying the wrong thing, and setting the kid off like a bottle rocket.
And a bottle rocket fired in his direction ought to be enough to send him fleeing into Rhea as fast as his massive back fins could take him, much less the huge airbursts Gaea was sending into the sky.
A white-hot current of pain crackled up his leg, sizzling into his hip joint, exploding in that socket of bone like a Fourth of July bottle rocket bursting in a night sky.
He said he was taking a shortcut through the alley, and all of a sudden the garage went up like a bottle rocket.
Occasionally a burst of laughter shot upward like a bottle rocket, exploding softly against the quiet darkness of the neighborhood.
Fear shot through me like a bottle rocket, lighting my insides with a shower of adrenaline.
Gustini Huksa wooed as a bottle rocket ascended and then erupted in a shower of sparks.