Usually means: Rapidly ascending or increasing quickly.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word rocketing:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. rocketing: Merriam-Webster
  2. rocketing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rocketing: The Word Spy
  4. rocketing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rocketing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rocketing, rocketing: Wordnik
  7. rocketing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rocketing: Wiktionary
  9. Rocketing, rocketing: Dictionary.com
  10. rocketing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Rocketing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Rocketing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. rocketing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. rocketing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rocketing: Encyclopedia

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  1. rocketing: Idioms

(Note: See rocket as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rocket)

noun:  A projectile.
noun:  A cylindrical projectile that can be fired to a great height through combustion, (specifically) a type of firework of this form, typically exploding with light and colour; a skyrocket.
noun:  A blunt lance head used in jousting.
noun:  A long vehicle or craft propelled by a rocket engine; a missile or rocket-propelled spacecraft.
noun:  An engine operating similarly to the pyrotechnic, generating thrust by the expulsion of hot gases; a rocket engine.
noun:  (figurative) Figurative uses.
noun:  Something that travels high in the air and/or with great speed; especially (sport), a hard shot.
noun:  (UK slang, originally military) A severe reprimand; a telling-off.
noun:  (slang) An ace (the playing card).
noun:  (Scotland, slang) A stupid or crazy person.
noun:  (South East England, slang) A very physically attractive woman.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To accelerate swiftly and powerfully.
verb:  To fly vertically.
verb:  To rise or soar rapidly.
verb:  To experience sudden fame, popularity, or success.
verb:  To carry something in a rocket.
verb:  To attack something with rockets.
noun:  A leaf vegetable of species Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.
noun:  Rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis, syn. Delphinium consolida).
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