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lightning bolt

noun

Definitions

  1. A single, visible discharge of lightning.

  2. A conventional representation of a lightning bolt as a zigzag line.

  3. A conventional representation of a lightning bolt in heraldry or in artistic depictions…

    A conventional representation of a lightning bolt in heraldry or in artistic depictions of thunder gods, for example as a winged and barbed torch.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Something that shocks or energizes, especially something that does so suddenly.

      • In this sense there was an uncomfortable similarity between the lettre de cachet, the “lightning bolt of despotism,” and the people that judged, not like a court of law, but like a force of nature.
      • She'd found her lightning bolt, but he didn't want her.

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