Synonyms for bolt
noun
A rod used for fastening
screw, brad, nut, skewer, peg, dowel, rivet, pin, spike, stud, coupling, kingbolt, key, lag screw, toggle bolt, pin, pipe, rod, bar, latch; see also lock 1, nail, screw.
A roll of goods or paper
cylinder, roll, length, package, spindle, curl, coil, spiral, twist.
Lightning
stroke of lightning, sheet of lightning, thunderbolt, flash, stroke, discharge, fulguration, shock.
See bolt in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
A sudden and involuntary movement:
jump, start, startle. See move
verb
To move suddenly and involuntarily:
jump, start. See moveTo leave hastily:
get out, run. (Informal) clear out, get, hotfoot, skedaddle. (Slang) hightail, scram, vamoose. Idioms: beat it, hightail it, hotfoot it , make tracks. See approachTo move swiftly:
bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt2, race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour2, shoot, speed, sprint, tear1, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. (Informal) hotfoot, rip. (Slang) barrel, highball. (Chiefly British) nip1. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step (or jump) on it. See moveTo swallow (food or drink) greedily or rapidly in large amounts:
down, englut, engorge, gobble, gulp, guzzle, ingurgitate, swill, wolf. See ingestion
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