Bolt

bolt btk 1. To fasten or make fast, the locking of a door or entry way; the placement of barriers to progress. 2. To flee suddenly, to engage in energetic egression, to move away, fully; i.e embarassed, he bolted from the party. 3. An ill-used Gnomic euphemism for ritual murder by strangulation often involving the use of string, tangled yo-yo's, a wooden spoon or double-gloved hands. 4. The female counterpart of a screw, plainly, a nut. 5. Used as shorthand, or in quip, for "lightning bolt".

Extrapolation

The citizens of ancient western societies are believed to have worshipped bolts of lightning, in the form of radically charged air, often witnessed gasping surrounded by such, kneeling perhaps and certainly viewing the phenomena as a kind of very elaborate whuppin' from on yon.

Non Canonical Text

"...the lumbering idle-brained beast, head bolted on askew, moaning in agony and desire like a priest in jolly confession..."

See Also

• Knot
• Run!

Superheroes often sub for meaningful shit that would otherwise langour in stoned silence.

Desiderata

The missile fired from a crossbow is known as a bolt.

Suffering from a cleft lip, Argy Boy referred to his wife's beauty as "a bold and short fellow, flailing obdurately, who arrived in the exactly opposite manner thus described."