lightning bolt
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upcropping
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agitant
catnip
thrill
jaw-dropper
fillip
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shock to the system
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zap
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sensigenous
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lose one's shit
excitant
juice
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shell shock
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antishock
just my luck
ruffle someone's feathers
shake
light the touch-paper
startling
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recreation
wonder
scurrility
diversion
amusement
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nonshock
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syntonizer
flabbergaster
entertainment
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cringy
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thunderstriking
twirler
flush
caffeinate
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enhancer
bolt
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impetus
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discomfort
seize
botherance
inclemency
treat
countershock
jackpot
comb someone's hair the wrong way
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botherance
inclemency
treat
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jackpot
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prorupt
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quake
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lose one's shit
juice
shell shock
snap
ruffle someone's feathers
light the touch-paper
shock
catch one's breath
rouse
caffeinate
shake
bounce
seize
comb someone's hair the wrong way
noun
- Something that shocks or energizes, especially something that does so suddenly.
- A single, visible discharge of lightning.
- A conventional representation of a lightning bolt in heraldry or in artistic depictions of thunder gods, for example as a winged and barbed torch.
- A conventional representation of a lightning bolt as a zigzag line.
noun
- Something that causes excitement or interest.
- Nepeta cataria and Nepeta grandiflora (and perhaps other species), which are well-known for causing an apparently harmless pheromone-based intoxication among certain cats.
- Any of the about 250 species of flowering plant of the genus Nepeta, family Lamiaceae, certain of which are said to have medicinal qualities.
noun
- Something that excites or stimulates.
- A sharp strike or tap made using this action, or (by extension) by other means.
- Something unimportant, a trifle; also, the brief time it takes to flick one's finger (see noun sense 1); a jiffy.
verb
- To project quickly; to snap.
- To strike or tap smartly.
- To drive as if by a fillip (noun sense 1); to excite, stimulate, whet.
- To strike, project, or propel with a fillip (that is, a finger released quickly after being pressed against the thumb); to flick.
- To make a fillip (noun sense 1) (with the fingers).
noun
- Any sudden activity; a stir.
- An occurrence of something (countable instances) in large numbers, happening suddenly or in a short period of time.
- A light, brief snowfall.
- A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze.
- A shower of dust, leaves etc. brought on by a sudden gust of wind.
- The violent spasms of a dying whale.
- A snack consisting of soft ice cream mixed with small pieces of fruit, cookie crumbs, etc.
verb
noun
- Anything that amplifies, or makes something larger or more intense.
- A lens that enlarges the field of vision.
- An adverb that adds intensity, such as "really" or "totally".
- An appliance or circuit that increases the strength of a weak electrical signal without changing the other characteristics of the signal.
- A portable encasement that houses a large speaker, used to amplify voices and musical instruments at live performances.
noun
- Something that causes (something else) to tumble.
- A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.
- One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms.
- A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.
- A drinking glass that has no stem, foot, or handle — so called because such glasses originally had a pointed or convex base and could not be set down without spilling. This compelled the drinker to finish their measure.
- A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts.
- A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.
- A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
- A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail.
- The pupa of a mosquito.
verb
- To energize or stimulate something.
- To extract the juice from something.
- To take a performance-enhancing drug.
noun
- Vitality, strength.
- Political power.
- Semen.
- Musical agreement between instrumentalists.
- The leftover liquid of some wet or damp substance.
- Petrol; gasoline.
- Electricity.
- Liquor.
- Steroids.
- A soft drink.
- A beverage made of juice.
- A liquid from a plant, especially fruit.
- The liquid that is used to submerge a substance kept in a container
- The amount charged by a bookmaker for betting services.
- The vaginal lubrication that a female naturally produces when sexually aroused.
noun
- A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
- The merest trifle; a straw.
- A person attempting to join a fraternity or sorority as part of a rush.
- The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
- A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
- A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
- The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
- General haste.
- A sudden attack; an onslaught.
- A surge.
- Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
- A sudden forward motion.
- A wick.
- The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.
- A rapid, noisy flow.
verb
- To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
- To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
- To swiftly attack without warning.
- To play at a faster tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually increase tempo while one is playing.
- To dribble rapidly.
- To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
- To make a swift or sudden attack.
- To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
- To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority, often involving a hazing or initiation process.
- To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
- To transport or carry quickly.
- To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.
adj
verb
- To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- To say abruptly or sharply.
- To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.
- To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- To give way abruptly and loudly.
- To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- To speak abruptly or sharply.
- To misfire.
- To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
adj
noun
- A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- A tool used by riveters.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- Something of no value.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- Something that is easy or effortless.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- briskness; vigour; energy; decision
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A sudden break.
- A photograph; a snapshot.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
- A newsflash.
- jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
intj
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
- Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
noun
- A shock or disturbance.
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- A milkshake.
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- A thin shingle.
verb
- To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- To dance.
- To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- To threaten to overthrow.
- To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- To shake hands.
- To move from side to side.
- To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
adj
verb
- To give an electric shock to.
- To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.
- To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.
- To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.
- To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
noun
- A state of distress following a mental or emotional disturbance.
- Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal.
- Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
- A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).
- A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels.
- An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.
- A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.
- A sudden, heavy impact.
- A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.
- Something so surprising that it is stunning.
- A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
- A shock wave.
noun
- Something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel.
- A kind of donut; a cruller.
- Someone very talented at something, a genius.
- A mental pondering, a thought.
- The sense or emotion which can be inspired by something curious or unknown; surprise; astonishment, often with awe or reverence.
- Something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable.
verb
verb
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- To pull by main strength; to haul.
- To tell off; to criticise.
noun
- An arousal.
- The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
noun
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
- The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
- A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
verb
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
- To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet
- To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
- To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- To cause to blush.
- To cause to take flight from concealment.
- Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- To excite, inflame.
- To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
adv
adj
verb
- To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
- (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
- To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
- To leave.
- To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
- To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
- To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
- To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
- To move rapidly (between).
- To attack unexpectedly.
- To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
- To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
- To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
- To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback.
- To return undelivered.
- To turn power off and back on; to reset.
noun
- A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
- Drugs.
- Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
- An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
- The sack, dismissal.
- Swagger.
- A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
- A bang, boom.
- A talent for leaping.
- A good beat in music.
- A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
noun
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
- A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
adv
verb
- To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
- To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- To escape.
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
- To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- To swallow food without chewing it.
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
noun
- Anything that impels; a stimulating factor.
- The force or energy associated with a moving body; a stimulus.
- An activity in response to a stimulus.
- A force, either internal or external, that impels; an impulse.
- A principle of motive force, held as exquivalent to weight times velocity by John Buridan, in an auxiliary theory of Aristotelian dynamics introduced by John Philoponus, describing projectile motion against gravity as linear until it transitions to a vertical drop and the intellectual precursor to the concepts of inertia, momentum and acceleration in classical mechanics.
verb
- To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
- To have a seizure.
- To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
- Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
- To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
- To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
- To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
- (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
- To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
- To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
- To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
noun
verb
- interact in a certain way
- subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
- provide treatment for
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- provide with a gift or entertainment
- provide with choice or abundant food or drink
- engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement
- regard or consider in a specific way
noun
- An unexpected windfall or reward.
- A jumble of felled timber.
- A large cash prize or money.
- A concentration of surface wood or fuel.
- A large accumulated point bonus, originally awarded after a long set of actions but now often easily available in multiball modes.
- A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
- A difficult situation.
verb
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