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off one's rocket

off one's rocket prepositional phrase: barmy; crazy; insane.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (malapropism) Barmy; crazy; insane.

Origin of off one's rocket

A mishearing or reinventing of the expression off one's rocker.

Questions about off one's rocket

What does off one's rocket mean?
Off one's rocket means barmy; crazy; insane.
What part of speech is off one's rocket?
Off one's rocket is a prepositional phrase.

Words near off one's rocket in the dictionary

  1. off one's nuts
  2. off one's onion
  3. off one's own back
  4. off one's own bat
  5. off one's rocker
  6. off one's rocket
  7. off one's tits
  8. off one's tree
  9. off one's trolley
  10. off ox
  11. off oxen

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