Meaning

12 senses
  1. A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.

  2. A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.

  3. A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.

  4. A person who sifts flour or meal.

  5. A filter mechanism.

  6. (Australia)An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.

  7. (Australia)A horse that wins at long odds.

  8. (New Zealand)In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.

  9. (US)A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee.

  10. A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing.

  11. A kind of fishing line; a boulter.

  12. Someone who equips a sport route by putting bolts in the rock.

Origin

From bolt + -er.

From bolt + -er.

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Forms

plural: bolters
Singularbolter
Pluralbolters

regular

Antonyms

1 antonyms
missed landing on an aircraft carrier:trapA2

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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