rocket launcher


nounMilitary.
  1. a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.

  2. a vehicle equipped with many such tubes for the simultaneous firing of rockets.

Origin of rocket launcher

1
First recorded in 1940–45

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How to use rocket launcher in a sentence

  • Right near there we encounter a man with a rocket launcher on his shoulder who says he saw us last month at Zintan.

    Victorious Return to Libya | Bernard-Henri Lévy | August 29, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • While they were assembling the sunbreak, Haines and Boulton unloaded a portable antitank rocket launcher.

    The Secret of the Ninth Planet | Donald Allen Wollheim
  • Burl and Haines, at the main entry port, unlimbered the long rocket launcher that had been set up in the passageway.

    The Secret of the Ninth Planet | Donald Allen Wollheim
  • They moved silently forward, carrying the rocket launcher on their backs and a small load of shells and several hand bombs.

    The Secret of the Ninth Planet | Donald Allen Wollheim
  • The object was a portable rocket launcher designed to fire light attack rockets.

    Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet | Harold Leland Goodwin
  • While two of you are doing that, you others break out the rocket launcher and rocket racks and assemble the cutting torch.

    Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet | Harold Leland Goodwin