rocket jump

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English

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ʌmp

Noun

rocket jump (plural rocket jumps)

  1. (video games) A jump performed by blasting a rocket launcher in close proximity to one's character.

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Verb

rocket jump (third-person singular simple present rocket jumps, present participle rocket jumping, simple past and past participle rocket jumped)

  1. (video games) To perform a jump by blasting a rocket launcher in close proximity to one's character.
    • 2003, Doug Radcliffe, Halo - Combat Evolved: Sybex Official Strategies and Secrets:
      Be advised that rocket-jumping is very painful. It's inadvisable to attempt it […]
    • 2004, Alex J Champandard, AI Game Development:
      Ideally, we don't want to test for rocket jumping directly, instead letting the evolution discover rockets as the best approach […]
    • 2008, Jim Rossignol, This Gaming Life:
      This technique now arrives almost subliminally for Quake players, but rocket jumping has long been recognized as one of Quake's key skills.

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English rocket jump.

Noun

rocket jump n or c

  1. (video games) a rocket jump

Usage notes

Uninflected.

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