📚 Skyrocket, verb. 🔉 /ˈskʌɪrɒkɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal • no object): (of a price, rate, or amount) increase very steeply or rapidly. ❗️ Examples: 1. The cost of the welfare system has skyrocketed. 2. Grind and roast those beans, and the value skyrockets more than 10 times, to $18 a kilo. 3. The entertainment level just skyrockets on that second viewing. 4. As tuition skyrockets, financial aid has become as elusive as that needle in the proverbial haystack. 5. Homer's popularity skyrockets when he is chosen as the leader of a secret organization. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic