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noun
an aerial bomb equipped with a rocket for added velocity after being dropped from an aircraft.
(loosely) any rocket-propelled missile launched from the ground.
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Origin of rocket bomb

First recorded in 1940–45
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How to use rocket bomb in a sentence

  • Like a rocket-bomb, this man of genius had risen from obscurity—had all but conquered the three greatest worlds of the universe.

    Tarrano the Conqueror|Raymond King Cummings
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