thunderbolt
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thunderbolt (plural thunderbolts)
- A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.
- (figuratively) An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected.
- 1697, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- the Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war
- Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
- 1627, George Hakewill, Apologie […] of the Power and Providence of God
- a thunder-bolt of warre Striking all Nations
- 1627, George Hakewill, Apologie […] of the Power and Providence of God
- (soccer) A very powerful shot.
- 2011 February 5, Michael Kevin Darling, “Tottenham 2 - 1 Bolton”, in BBC[1]:
- Substitute Niko Kranjcar's injury-time thunderbolt gave Tottenham a dramatic win over Bolton.
- (paleontology) A belemnite, or thunderstone.
- (heraldry) A charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them, resembling the thunderbolt of Jupiter.
- A daring or irresistible hero.
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flash of lightning accompanied by thunder
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an event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected