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  • noun Plural form of rocketeer.

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Examples

  • I always loved the idea of rocketeers, even if they're highly impractical (if not downright impossible) in the real world.

    Nuketown 2009

  • If you have an escort you can go around the green zone and have a look at things, but they are very tight on just journalists walking around, reporting on where things are in the green zone because they are afraid it will give away positions and help 'rocketeers' and mortar-attackers and so-on.

    News from TheMediaLine.org. 2009

  • If you have an escort you can go around the green zone and have a look at things, but they are very tight on just journalists walking around, reporting on where things are in the green zone because they are afraid it will give away positions and help 'rocketeers' and mortar-attackers and so-on.

    News from TheMediaLine.org. 2009

  • If you have an escort you can go around the green zone and have a look at things, but they are very tight on just journalists walking around, reporting on where things are in the green zone because they are afraid it will give away positions and help 'rocketeers' and mortar-attackers and so-on.

    News from TheMediaLine.org. 2009

  • Eventually, Israel will win this war of attrition against Hamas rocketeers, just as it won its war of attrition against West Bank suicide bombers.

    Matthew Yglesias » What We Could Do for Palestinians 2009

  • But in analyzing the specious “what if Tijuana or Vancouver BC started lobbing rockets at us” analogy the point is NOT that “the Canadians would arrest” the rocketeers.

    Matthew Yglesias » Gaza in Context 2009

  • American rocketeers had previously put fruit flies and mice in space, and the Soviets put several dogs in orbit.

    His 'Astrochimp' Proved Space Was Safe Stephen Miller 2011

  • What Japan did with their rocketeers when the WWII treaty forbad rocket development was develop Japan's bullet trains.

    Apollo's Daughter :: April 16th, 2009 apollosdtr 2009

  • What Japan did with their rocketeers when the WWII treaty forbad rocket development was develop Japan's bullet trains.

    Apollo's Daughter :: UPDATE 1-Obama says US high-speed rail 'overdue' | Markets | US Markets | Reuters apollosdtr 2009

  • How can Israel flourish if its army cannot defeat small bands of rocketeers?

    Unforgiven 2008

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