Definition of rocket ship
: a rocket-propelled spaceship
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Zynga was founded in April of 2007, taking off like a rocket ship via its game integration with Facebook.
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So, every ferry, car, bus, truck, train, airplane, and rocket ship put together is responsible for less greenhouse gas emissions than using animals to produce food.
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His Netflix pedigree, coupled with Spotify’s Netflix-like grow-fast-now, worry-about-profits later strategy, conveys an implicit promise to would-be Spotify investors: This is another consumer growth rocket ship.
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Carmina Escobar, who can make her voice sound like insects dancing on dry leaves or a rocket ship dying in space, is the night’s headliner, an experimental vocalist and performance artist who long ago fled the strictures of classical music.
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That’s rocket ship fast, gives you an 18-mile electric-only range, and returns 59 MPGe.
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The thing looked like a cross between a shopping cart and a rocket ship, with an arc of safety-orange fabric stretched over the top.
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Under President Barack Obama, NASA began to work on a reusable rocket ship designed to take crews from Earth to Mars and then back and forth from Mars to the moon platform.
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The rocket ship that is expected to eventually get to the Red Planet is the BFR rocket system.
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First Known Use of rocket ship
1927
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Definition of rocket ship for English Language Learners
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: a spaceship that is powered by rockets
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