lightning bolt
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lightning bolt
noun lightning bolts
- A single, visible discharge of lightning. Shortly after dinner one day — it was a hot summer afternoon — a very severe thunderstorm broke out over the city and after it had lasted some ten to fifteen minutes an exceptionally bright lightning bolt flashed through the air followed immediately by a terrific crash of thunder.
- A conventional representation of a lightning bolt as a zigzag line.
- A conventional representation of a lightning bolt in heraldry or in artistic depictions of thunder gods, for example as a winged and barbed torch.
- 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.
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Talk about this word "lightning bolt." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/lightning%20bolt. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. lightning bolt. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/lightning%20bolt "lightning bolt." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/lightning%20bolt.Cite this
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