rocket ship

American  

noun

1. a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.

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Etymology

Origin of rocket ship

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

The risk that January evening was from an experimental SpaceX rocket ship that exploded minutes after liftoff.

From The Wall Street Journal

So unless there’s an ICE rocket ship we don’t know about, these are just blatant falsifications.

From Slate

The digital delights of “Fire and Ash” are simply unsupported by any dramatic foundation; the script is so ludicrously weak that you might as well try to balance a rocket ship on top of a styrofoam cup.

From The Wall Street Journal

But a Adrian Newey-designed rocket ship from Williams saw him overcome a development phase Schumacher at Ferrari and a rough diamond debutant in team-mate Jacques Villeneuve.

From BBC

Take your AI-hallucinated definitions and send them in a rocket ship to Mars, baby!

From Los Angeles Times