Meaning of lightning bolt | Babel Free

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 of thunder gods, for example as a winged and barbed torch.
4. Something that shocks or energizes, especially something that does so suddenly.
   figuratively

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“In Conte Chelsea have something different, a manager who inherited a messy, enervated squad fresh from the worst title defence in 25 years and threw a lightning bolt through pretty much the same group of players to create a fresh champion team.”

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