bottle rocket

noun

bottle rocket

noun

1

A small skyrocket that can be launched from an empty bottle.

Giggling children hid in the ditches and shot bottle rockets in front and behind them as they walked past; the sparks shot through the air like manic, fizzing fireflies.2008, Jesmyn Ward, Where the Line Bleeds, Bloomsbury (2018), page 158:

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