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thun⋅der⋅bolt

  [thuhn-der-bohlt]
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–noun
1. a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
2. an imaginary bolt or dart conceived as the material destructive agent cast to earth in a flash of lightning: the thunderbolts of Jove.
3. something very destructive, terrible, severe, sudden, or startling.
4. a person who acts with fury or with sudden and irresistible force.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME thondre bolte. See thunder, bolt 1
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thun·der·bolt   (thŭn'dər-bōlt')   
n.  

  1. A discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder.

  2. A flash of lightning conceived as a bolt or dart hurled from the heavens.

    1. One that acts with sudden and destructive fury.

    2. A startling, forceful action: "Every political campaign manager saves a thunderbolt for the last week before Election Day" (Art Buchwald).

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