skyrocket

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The stock was going up like a skyrocket: a week ago you could have bought it for nineteen.

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  1. noun A firework that ascends high into the air where it explodes in a brilliant cascade of flares and starlike sparks.
  2. intransitive and transitive verb To rise or cause to rise rapidly and suddenly: Wheat prices skyrocketed. Discovery of oil here has skyrocketed land values.

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  • "That's crazy We'd be about as inconspicuous as a skyrocket," Doc advised him. —  180 - Return From Cormoral
  • For a while I suspected Napoleon of having it—I mean, he shot up like a skyrocket, and whoever heard of a Corsican amounting to anything? —  TheMagazineofFantasyandScienceFiction,March2005
  • The system will make energy costs skyrocket, as even Barack —  Hot Air » Top Picks
  • They single-handedly make the cost of health care skyrocket, all in the name of feeding their addiction. —  Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
  • Electricity rates will skyrocket, as will all other energy products we use. —  Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories
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