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ˈskyrocket, v.
[f. the n.]
1. trans. In Cricket, = sky v.1 1 b. rare—1.
1851W. Clarke Pract. Hints Cricket in W. Bolland Cricket Notes 134 It's enough to make you bite your thumbs to see your best balls pulled and sky-rocketed about.
2. a. intr. To rise abruptly and rapidly; to increase dramatically (in number, amount, etc.). Cf. rocket v. 2 c. Chiefly U.S.
1895in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1923Nation (N.Y.) 22 Aug. 181 The supply runs short and prices go skyrocketing. 1935Motion Picture Nov. 40/2 Frances Dee..sky⁓rockets to new importance with an amazingly fine performance. 1936M. Mitchell Gone with Wind xii. 217 Even the cheapest cotton goods had skyrocketed in price. 1943J. Steinbeck in N.Y. Herald Tribune 29 Sept. 21/8 The incidence of GI dysentery skyrocketed. 1951E. Paul Springtime in Paris iv. 80 After World War I,..the mark skyrocketed from 100 to the dollar to 3,000,000 or more. 1968Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 14 Mar. (1970) 638 The headlines ran:—‘Mad Rush in Europe’..‘Gold Buying Skyrockets’. 1974‘E. Lathen’ Sweet & Low xviii. 173 It had taken only twenty-four hours in the hinterland for his opinion of Milan to sky⁓rocket.
b. To jump or fly up suddenly, in the manner of a sky-rocket. rare.
1907G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island ii. 30 Here! where are you jumpin to? Wheres your manners to go skyrocketin like that out o the box in the middle o your confession? 1946J. W. Day Harvest Adventure iv. 48 Partridges sky-rocketed and screwballed overhead and fled to safety.
3. a. trans. To destroy utterly; = explode v. 3. b. To cause to rise abruptly and rapidly: to propel rapidly forward or upward; to increase sharply.
1928Daily Express 24 Nov. 3/5 A careful ‘once-over’ of some of London's most prominent public men has..sky-rocketed the popular American idea that all Englishmen are snappy dressers! 1950Blesh & Janis They all played Ragtime v. 102 His 1896 success at Keith's and Tony Pastor's in New York skyrocketed him into the public eye. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 31 Jan. 6/1 If I had a disease that skyrocketed my chances of dying early.., would I take the drugs that would control my disease.
So ˈskyrocketing vbl. n. and ppl. a. Cf. rocketing ppl. a.
1849Poe Marginalia in Compl. Wks. (1902) XVI. 166 The German ‘Schwärmerei’—not exactly ‘hum-bug’, but ‘sky-rocketing’—..that peculiar style of criticism which has lately come into fashion, through the influence of certain..people who live..about Boston. 1933Sun (Baltimore) 18 Aug. 16/5 Skyrocketing of all grain values immediately ensued. 1962[see explosion 4 b]. 1979Vole 8 Nov. 26/1 Land-prices..are a key element in the sky-rocketing costs of both housing and food. |