Wiktionary
n. 1 a hand-held tube-like device for launching a rocket propelled explosive device (missile) 2 a truck for carrying and launching a missile 3 (context informal English) a rack on a boat or a vehicle, for holding or storing fishing rods.
WordNet
n. armament in the form of a device capable of launching a rocket [syn: launcher]
Wikipedia
A rocket launcher is a device used to launch a rocket. It may also refer to:
- Rocket launcher jump, a movement technique used in first-person shooter video games
- Rocket Launcher, a maneuver in professional wrestling
- If I Had a Rocket Launcher, a 1984 song by Bruce Cockburn
Usage examples of "rocket launcher".
I think that field was the place where you were going to erect your own rocket launcher!
The engineer dismounted halfway up the hillock and tied the mount to a scrub oak before climbing up to the hilltop, where the marines were setting up the rocket launcher.
The range to the hilltop where the pair of Kalendru were setting up a clip-fed rocket launcher was nearly a thousand yards.
There wasn't room in the narrow hide for the rocket launcher he favored, and the big missiles would be useless in a point-blank shootout anyway.
He had seen a People's Army of Vietnam soldier inadvertently killed when the backblast of a rocket launcher hit him.
He would bear it with him, and someday he would put this rocket launcher in a niche and pour out sacrifice before it as the patron spirit of the kindred he would found!
MacIlargie looked at him curiously, but didn't say anything as he passed over the antitank rocket launcher.
Rifles, machine-pistols, what looked like a breakdown rocket launcher were clipped to frames beside the bunks.
The barrel-like extension of the light was on his shoulder, aimed almost like a rifle, or more properly like an antitank rocket launcher, at the nose of the approaching aircraft.
Two feet of ice was too much for the thin-hulled Grisha-class patrol boats to plow through, and their main antisubmarine weapon, a multiple rocket launcher called an RBU-6000, was useless over ice, but a Grisha could call in a submarine.
They moved silently forward carrying the rocket launcher on their backs and a small load of shells and several hand bombs.
One of them carried a shoulder-fired rocket launcher to deal with blast doors and internal bulkheads, and Gunny Mendenhall's combat zoot received, at point-blank range, a shaped-charge warhead designed to take out a heavy tank.