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antirocket

antirocket adjective: designed to prevent, or counterattack against, rocket fire.

Adjective

antirocket (not comparable)

  1. Designed to prevent, or counterattack against, rocket fire
    • Some 200 were killed instantly, shocking Hamas and indeed all of Gaza, especially because Israel’s antirocket attacks in previous years had been more measured.2009 January 19, Ethan Bronner, “Parsing Gains of Gaza War”, in New York Times

Origin of antirocket

From anti- + rocket.

Questions about antirocket

What does antirocket mean?
Antirocket means designed to prevent, or counterattack against, rocket fire.
What part of speech is antirocket?
Antirocket is an adjective.

Words near antirocket in the dictionary

  1. antirobin
  2. antirobot
  3. antirobotic
  4. antirock
  5. antirocker
  6. antirocket
  7. antirodent
  8. antirodeo
  9. antiroll
  10. antirollover
  11. antiromance

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