(intransitive, colloquial) To grow or increase sharply.

A magazine holding rockets.

plural of rocket pod

(ufology) Any of the rocket- or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects sighted in 1946, mostly in Sweden and nearby countries.

A rocket-propelled vehicle constrained to run on a rail, used for experimental purposes.

(space science) A suborbital rocket used to launch upper atmosphere, exoatmospheric, and microgravity sondes or probes.

(slang) A penis.

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

A ground-launched rocket-propelled vehicle that delivers a payload to orbit or land on the moon / (finance) A company whose stock price rises dramatically following an initial public offering

(historical) A kind of military rocket.