skyrocket

IPA: skˈaɪrɑkʌt

A type of firework that uses a solid rocket engine to rise quickly into the sky where it emits a variety of effects such as stars, bangs, crackles, etc.
(by extension) A rebuke, a scolding.
(UK, Australia, rhyming slang) pocket.

(intransitive) To rise or increase suddenly and extremely; to shoot up; to surge or spike.
(transitive) To cause to increase suddenly and extremely.

Examples of "skyrocket" in Sentences

EU Referendum: Galileo costs to "skyrocket" - shock!
SanDisk assures us that the price will not skyrocket, which is a relief.
The thought that without this site my productivity at work will skyrocket is cold comfort.
Instead of spending, they are saving because they have no confidence that tomorrow's interest rates will not again skyrocket.
Sometimes lost, I think, in the discussions of what happens to the world if oil prices really skyrocket is the fact it's really really cheap to ship things on water.
Austrian Mint, the world's largest marketer of pure gold coins, best known for its Philharmonic bullion coin, has seen demand for gold coins skyrocket over the past few months, according to
On the subject of the bombshell quotes from Barack Obama about "bankrupting" the coal industry and making electric rates "skyrocket" - about which I audio excerpt of which Hugh has since posted separately - the San Francisco Chronicle is now furiously trying to cover its collective fanny in a spectacularly unconvincing fashion.