Usually means: Sudden, sharp movement or shock.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. jolt: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. jolt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jolt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jolt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jolt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jolt, jolt: Wordnik
  7. jolt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jolt: Wiktionary
  9. jolt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jolt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jolt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Jolt, jolt: Dictionary.com
  13. jolt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. jolt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Jolt (comics), Jolt (film), Jolt (physics), Jolt, The Jolt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Jolt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. jolt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. jolt: Rhymezone
  19. Jolt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. jolt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. jolt: Free Dictionary
  22. jolt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. jolt: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jolt: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. JOLT: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. JOLT: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. JOLT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. jolt: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. jolt, jolt: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Jolt: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Jolt, The Jolt: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See jolted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
verb:  (transitive) To knock sharply
verb:  (transitive) To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert
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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