skyrocket

English

Etymology

sky +‎ rocket

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈskaɪˌɹɒk.ɪt/, X-SAMPA: /"skAI%rQk.It/

Noun

skyrocket (plural skyrockets)

Wikipedia

1. A type of firework that uses a solid rocket motor to rise quickly into the sky where it emits a variety of effects such as stars, bangs, crackles, etc.
2. (by extension) A rebuke, a scolding.
3. (rhyming slang) Pocket.

Translations

firework using solid rocket motor and emitting various effects

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烽火 (cmn) (fēnghuǒ)

• French: fusée d'artifice (fr) f
• German: Feuerwerksrakete (de) f

• Icelandic: eldflaug (is) f, raketta (is) f
• Italian: razzo (it) m
• Japanese: ロケット花火 (ja) (roketto hanabi), のろし (ja) (noroshi), 狼煙 (ja) (kanji spelling), 烽火 (ja) (kanji spelling)
• Russian: сигнальная ракета (ru) (signálʹnaja rakéta) f

a rebuke, a scolding

• French: volée de bois vert (fr) f, (colloquial) Scud (fr) m

(rhyming slang) pocket

Verb

skyrocket (third-person singular simple present skyrockets, present participle skyrocketing, simple past and past participle skyrocketed)

1. To increase suddenly and extremely; to shoot up; to surge or spike.
   • 2013 March 1, David S. Senchina, “Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 134: 

     Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.

   The shortage caused prices to skyrocket.

Antonyms

• plummet

Translations

to increase suddenly and extremely

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飛漲 (cmn), 飞涨 (cmn) (fēizhǎng), 平步青雲 (cmn), 平步青云 (cmn) (píngbùqīngyún) (positive meaning, e.g. career), 劇增 (cmn), 剧增 (cmn) (jùzēng) (dramatically increase), 猛漲 (cmn), 猛涨 (cmn) (měng zhǎng)

• Czech: vyletět nahoru (cs)
• Finnish: nousta pilviin (figuratively)
• French: grimper en flèche (fr), monter en flèche (fr), exploser (fr)

• German: emporschnellen (de), hochschnellen (de), explodieren (de)
• Japanese: 急騰する (ja) (きゅうとうする, kyūtō suru), 暴騰する (ja) (ぼうとうする, bōtō suru)
• Russian: подскакивать (ru) (podskákivatʹ) impf., подскочить (ru) (podskočítʹ) pf., взлетать (ru) (vzletátʹ) impf., взлететь (ru) (vzletétʹ) pf., взмывать (ru) (vzmyvátʹ), взмыть (ru) (vzmytʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: odleteti u nebesa (sh), odletjeti u nebesa (sh) (figuratively)

  Roman: одлетети у небеса (sh), одлетјети у небеса (sh) (figuratively)