All 8 Uses

meteor
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The Bean Trees
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The next morning Angel kept saying, 'Man, can you believe that meteor shower?†
Chpt 6.

meteor = a streak of light in the sky caused by a small space rock burning up in Earth’s atmosphere
Maybe there never was any meteor shower.†
Chpt 6.
I kept on thinking that if I could miss a whole meteor shower, well, I'd probably done something else ridiculous.†
Chpt 6.
Lou Ann was the one who read her horoscope every day, and mine, and Dwayne Ray's, and fretted that we would never know Turtle's true sign (which seemed to me the least of her worries), and was sworn to a strange kind of logic that said a man could leave his wife for missing a meteor shower or buying the wrong brand of cookies.†
Chpt 7.
"I can't believe it," she said, "first Manny and Ramona, you remember, the friends I told you about that saw the meteor shower?†
Chpt 10.
"Same place as your meteor shower," I said.†
Chpt 13.
Remember about the meteors?†
Chpt 17.

meteors = streaks of light in the sky caused by small space rocks burning up in Earth’s atmosphere
There wasn't any meteor shower.
Chpt 17. *

meteor = a streak of light in the night sky that results from small extraterrestrial bodies burning in the earth's atmosphere

Definitions:

(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)