bottle rocket

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bottle rocket (plural bottle rockets)

  1. A small skyrocket that can be launched from an empty bottle.
    • 2008, Jesmyn Ward, Where the Line Bleeds, Bloomsbury (2018), page 158:
      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.