All 3 Uses
meteor
in
The Martian Chronicles
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- Tonight we should be glad we got across all that space without getting a meteor in our bulkhead or having one man of us die.†
Chpt 7 *meteor = a streak of light in the sky caused by a small space rock burning up in Earth’s atmosphere
- Jerked outa rockets like so many minnows hit by a meteor, by God!†
Chpt 15
- Space fulla meteors.†
Chpt 15meteors = streaks of light in the sky caused by small space rocks burning up in Earth’s atmosphere
Definitions:
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(1)
(meteor) a streak of light in the sky caused by a small space rock (a meteoroid) burning up in Earth’s atmosphere
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)