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bolt

bolt - noun

  1. A sudden and involuntary movement: jump, start, startle. See move.

bolt - verb

  1. To move suddenly and involuntarily: jump, start. See move.
  2. To leave hastily: get out, run. Informal clear out, get, hotfoot, skedaddle. Slang hightail, scram, vamoose. See approach.
  3. To move swiftly: bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt, race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour, shoot, speed, sprint, tear, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. Informal hotfoot, rip. Slang barrel, highball. Chiefly British nip. See move.
  4. To swallow (food or drink) greedily or rapidly in large amounts: down, englut, engorge, gobble, gulp, guzzle, ingurgitate, swill, wolf. See ingestion.