bottle rocket

noun

A small skyrocket that can be launched from an empty bottle.

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Meanings

nounbottle rocket (plural bottle rockets)

plural bottle rockets

  1. A small skyrocket that can be launched from an empty bottle.

    Giggling children hid in the ditches and shot bottle rockets in front and behind them as they walked past; the sparks shot through the air like manic, fizzing fireflies.

    2008, Jesmyn Ward, Where the Line Bleeds, Bloomsbury (2018), page 158
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bottle rocket. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bottle%20rocket

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“bottle rocket.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bottle%20rocket. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bottle rocket,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bottle%20rocket.

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