rocket jump

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rocket jump (plural rocket jumps)

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

• grenade jump

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.

• grenade jump

Unadapted borrowing from English rocket jump.

rocket jump n or c

1. (video games) a rocket jump

Only inflects as the genitive rocket jumps.

• rocketjumpa