Definitions for jolts

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jolts jolt

Spelling: [johlt]

IPA: /dʒoʊlt/

Jolts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in jolts (jlost).

Definitions for jolts

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 jolts

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

Examples for jolts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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