bottle rocket
English
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Noun
[edit]bottle rocket (plural bottle rockets)
- 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.