Crossword clues for jolt
jolt
- A bit of a shock
- Sudden shake
- Sudden jerk
- Caffeine's kick
- Burst of electricity
- It's quite a shock
- Big shock
- Serious surprise
- Serious shock
- Quite a blow
- What a double shot of espresso might provide
- What a double shot of caffeine provides
- Wake-up shock
- Super-caffeinated cola brand
- Sudden, forceful hit
- Soda whose original slogan was "All the sugar and twice the caffeine"
- Shocking stimulus
- Shocking sensation
- Shock somewhat
- Sharp bump
- Severe shock
- Rough blow
- Quick electrical burst
- Might get one from a shock rocker
- Major surprise
- Major shake-up
- Jog (memory)
- Hit with electricity
- Highly caffeinated cola with a lightning bolt in its logo
- Heavily caffeinated soft drink
- Feeling of shock
- Cola that once had the slogan "All the sugar and twice the caffeine"
- Cola packaged in "battery bottles"
- Cola named for its intended effect
- Cola brand with extra caffeine
- Caffeine kick
- Abrupt shock
- Abrupt bump
- "Battery bottle" beverage
- Stun with a blow
- Shake up severely
- Finger-in-the-socket consequence
- Shock to the system
- Big buffet
- Rude awakening
- Supercaffeinated cola
- Bump hard
- Big bump
- Kick
- With 5-Down, bygone beverage
- Give a turn
- What caffeine can give you
- An abrupt spasmodic movement
- A sudden impact
- Sudden impact
- Abrupt setback
- Give one a turn
- Blow
- Sudden shock of electricity
- Elbow hard
- Jar with a hard blow
- Hit with a hard blow
- Shake roughly
- Take aback
- Shock line included in note
- Shock line in note
- Leader of Labour's in touch? That's a shock
- Taking tops of jars off, leave this jar
- Knock for a loop
- Sharp blow
- Bump into
- Emotional shock
- Burst of energy
- Knock sharply so as to dislodge
- Sudden blow
- Unpleasant surprise
- Nasty shock
- Hit with a haymaker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jolt \Jolt\, v. t.
To cause to move with a sudden motion, especially an up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers.
To stun or shock a person physically, as with a blow or electrical shock; as, the earthquake jolted him out of bed.
To stun or shock or change the mental state of (a person) suddenly, as if with a blow; as, the sight of the house on fire jolted him into action; his mother's early death jolted his idyllic happiness.
Jolt \Jolt\, n.
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A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground.
The first jolt had like to have shaken me out.
--Swift. A physical or psychological shock; see jolt v. t. senses 2 and 3; as, the stock market plunge was a big jolt to his sense of affluence; he touched the casing of the ungrounded motor and got a jolt from a short inside.
Something which causes a jolt[2]; as, the bad news was a jolt.
Jolt \Jolt\ (j[=o]lt), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jolting.] [Prob. fr. jole, joll, jowl, and orig. meaning, to knock on the head. See Jowl.] To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, perhaps from Middle English jollen, chollen "to knock, to batter" (early 15c.), or an alteration of obsolete jot (v.) "to jostle" (1520s). Perhaps related to earlier jolt head "a big, stupid head" (1530s). Figurative sense of "to startle, surprise" is from 1872. Related: Jolted; jolting.
1590s, "a knock," from jolt (v.). Meaning "jarring shock" is from 1630s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An act of jolting. 2 A surprise or shock. 3 (context slang English) A long prison sentence. 4 (context slang English) A narcotic injection. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To push or shake abruptly and roughly. 2 (context transitive English) To knock sharply; to deal a blow to. 3 (context transitive English) To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert; as, to jolt someone out of complacency 4 (context transitive English) To shock emotionally. 5 (context intransitive English) To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Jolt may refer to:
- Jolt Award, an award in the software industry
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Jolt Cola, a soft drink
- Jolt gum, a caffeinated chewing gum from the makers of Jolt Cola
- Jolt Online Gaming, a game server host, game network and broadband internet service provider
- Jolt (physics) or surge, in physics, the third derivative of position with regard to time
- Jolt (comics), a teen heroine from Marvel Comics
- Jolt (Transformers), a transformer in the movie Transformers:_Revenge_of_the_Fallen
- Jolt, a DC Comics character, and member of The Blasters
- Harvard Journal of Law & Technology
- North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology
Jolt (Helen "Hallie" Takahama) is a fictional character, a superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been depicted as a member of the Thunderbolts and Young Allies.
Jolt is the name of five fictional characters in the Transformers series. The original Jolt was a Decepticon hot rod with a sword who was introduced in 1994. Portrayed in a variety of forms, the most recent version of Jolt is a heroic Autobot who appeared in the 2009 film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Usage examples of "jolt".
Crack, crack, crack, their trigger hands in constant motion, ejecting old shells, chambering fresh ones, not really aiming as they yanked off their bullets, the recoils jolting them.
The road to his house was nothing more than a stretch of dirt and gravel with a ribbon of grass down the middle, and his jeep sounded like an army tank as it jolted all over the place.
I still went among them in safety, because no jolt in the downward glide had released the increasing charge of explosive animalism that ousted the human day by day.
The Warming had absorbed all our energies, and the great shock of the Happy Anniversary flash-bombing in 2033 had jolted us even more.
He was very handsome and self-assured and Auger recognised him with a jolt.
He flew toward a Bludger that was flying straight at him and then swung back, grunting loudly, feeling a jolt move through him as he struck it, hearing the ringing sound of metal on metal as one of the iron bands on the bat hit the Bludger.
They seemed to have woken up now, and as his team scored their fourth goal, still holding the English team to one-hundred, Harry was somewhat shocked to feel a jolt as a Bludger collided with his broom twigs, making him fly crazily for a moment until he grasped the handle with determination and zoomed straight up, to shake the wobbles out of it.
Aubrey forgot his resolution not to hit a smaller man, and also calling upon his patron saints--the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World-- he delivered a smashing slog which hit the bookseller in the chest and jolted him half across the alley.
Tally began to anticipate the sickening jolt of her bungee jacket pulling her up.
Whereupon, casting a look of leisurely scorn toward the guard coming up in the last beams of day, the Baron shrugged his huge shoulders to an altitude expressing the various contemptuous shades of feudal coxcombry, stuck one leather-ruffled arm in his side, and jolted off at an easy pace.
This whole mess harked back to his stupid slip--calling her Lanni as the darned alarm jolted him awake.
Whenever I made a direct hit, the guard gave me a jolt through the detainment cuff on my left wrist.
Which quickly turned into cries of pain as their detainment cuffs started jolting them.
Part of it he had endured jolting along in a cart behind a drom, and much had been spent on foot.
The passengers hung onto the seats in front of them and, on a number of occasions, Eggy was jolted against the guard.