blast off

1. 1.

   launch with great force

   “the rockets were blasted off”

   Broaderlaunch

Questions about blast off

What does blast off mean?

blast off means "launch with great force".

Is blast off a common word?

blast off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.