Definitions for jolt

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Spelling: [johlt]

IPA: /dʒoʊlt/

Jolt is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in jolt (jlot).

Definitions for jolt

noun

1. a jolting shock, movement, or blow:
2. an emotional or psychological shock:
3. something that causes such a shock:
4. a sudden, unexpected rejection or defeat:
5. Slang. a prison sentence.
6. Slang. an injection of a narcotic.
7. a bracing dose of something:

verb (used with object)

1. to jar, shake, or cause to move by or as if by a sudden rough thrust; shake up roughly:
2. to knock sharply so as to dislodge:
3. to stun with a blow, especially in boxing.
4. to shock emotionally or psychologically:
5. to bring to a desired state sharply or abruptly:
6. to make active or alert, as by using an abrupt, sharp, or rough manner:
7. to interfere with or intrude upon, especially in a rough or crude manner; interrupt disturbingly.

verb (used without object)

1. to move with a sharp jerk or a series of sharp jerks:

Origin of jolt

1590-1600; blend of jot to jolt and joll to bump, both now dial.

Examples for jolt

King was later said to have been within a sneeze or a jolt of extinction.

Some people, they soon realized, needed a second jolt—and there was an awful smell of burnt flesh.

He, too, reined up with a jolt and leaped out of the saddle.

So, yeah, it was a very big hiccup—one sufficiently large to jolt the heart from its regular beat.

You bandy-legged rat, get up there, or I'll give you a jolt.

The "Compact" swung and tilted with the jolt of her energetic movements.

It was the jolt needed to get through the last stretch of the summer.

I had had the jolt that I needed from life—its agony and bloody sweat, its mystery.

He sat down with a jolt, and glared fiercely at his friend beside him.

The whole point of writing for free online, as Justin Hall had shown, was that it produced a jolt of joy.