Meaning

5 senses
  1. An act of jolting.

    Gerüttel, Geschüttel, Ruck

    тря́скаtrjáska, толчо́кtolčók

    трясінняtrjasinnja, поштовхpoštovx

  2. A surprise or shock.

    Schock, Aufrüttler, Waxhrüttler

    встря́скаvstrjáska, уда́рudár, шокšok

    струсstrus, шокšok, двигітdvyhit

  3. (slang)A long prison sentence.

    Denkzettel

  4. (slang)A narcotic injection.

    Schuss

  5. The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.

More definitions
  • a sudden jarring impact
  • an abrupt spasmodic movement

Examples

21 sentences
  1. The car gave a jolt.

  2. Yanni's car started to jolt slightly.

  3. The bus jolted over the rough road.

  4. Suddenly I felt something like a jolt.

    dePlötzlich fühlte ich so etwas wie eine Erschütterung. — Yorwba

  5. She jolted her head back in surprise.

Translations

4 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
act of jolting:
surprise or shock:
Русский
By meaning 2
act of jolting:
surprise or shock:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
act of jolting:
surprise or shock:
long prison sentence:
narcotic injection:

Origin

Perhaps from joll (“to knock, strike”) + -t (frequentative suffix).

Perhaps from joll (“to knock, strike”) + -t (frequentative suffix).

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Forms

plural: jolts
Singularjolt
Pluraljolts

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedjolty

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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