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thunderbolts

[thuhn-der-bohlt]

thun·der·bolt

[thuhn-der-bohlt]
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 Middle English thondre bolte. See thunder, bolt1
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