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skyrocket

[ skahy-rok-it ]

noun

  1. a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
  2. Also called scarlet gilia. a plant, Ipomopsis aggregata, of the phlox family, native to western North America, having finely divided leaves and clusters of red, trumpet-shaped flowers.
  3. an organized group cheer, usually led by a cheerleader, as at a football or basketball game, which begins with a hissing or whistling and ends with a shout.


verb (used without object)

  1. to rise or increase rapidly or suddenly, especially to unexpected or unprecedented levels:

    Prices skyrocketed during the war.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cause to rise or increase rapidly and usually suddenly:

    Economic changes have skyrocketed prices.

  2. to thrust with sudden dramatic advancement; catapult:

    Talent has skyrocketed him to fame.

skyrocket

/ ˈ첹ɪˌɒɪ /

noun

  1. another word for rocket 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. informal.
    intr to rise rapidly, as in price
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of skyrocket1

First recorded in 1680–90; sky + rocket 1
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The 33-year-old stay-at-home mother said she and her husband had made all the necessary repairs to their cars early in the year, concerned that prices on parts shipped from overseas would soon skyrocket.

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"The prices in the wholesale market have skyrocketed already," he told the BBC.

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Under the Biden administration, the number of immigrant encounters with law enforcement at the southern border skyrocketed.

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Though the avian flu, or H5N1, has circulated among American poultry flocks for years, an outbreak starting in 2022 has wreaked havoc on farms, killing more than 156 million birds and sending egg prices skyrocketing.

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By 1999, foreclosures and repossessions were skyrocketing, and used mobile homes — ones whose owners, in most cases, had lost their only home — “flooded the market, reducing demand for new units.”

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