jolt
- Verb. (transitive) To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
- Verb. (transitive) To knock sharply; to deal a blow to.
- Verb. (transitive) To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert; as, to jolt someone out of complacency.
- Verb. (transitive) To shock emotionally.
- Verb. (intransitive) To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
- Noun. An act of jolting.
- Noun. A surprise or shock.
- Noun. (slang) A long prison sentence.
- Noun. (slang) A narcotic injection.
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