skyrocket

  1. Noun.  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. Noun.  (by extension) a rebuke, a scolding.
  3. Noun.  (rhyming slang) pocket.
  4. Verb.  To increase suddenly and extremely; to shoot up; to surge or spike.

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