anti-submarine rocket

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   a shipboard system to fire rockets at submarines

   Broadershipboard system

Questions about anti-submarine rocket

What does anti-submarine rocket mean?

anti-submarine rocket means "a shipboard system to fire rockets at submarines".

Is anti-submarine rocket a common word?

anti-submarine rocket is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.