thunderbolt

Definitions

• A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.
• (figuratively) An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected.
• Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
• (soccer) A very powerful shot.
• (paleontology) A belemnite, or thunderstone.
• (heraldiccharge) A charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them, resembling the thunderbolt of Jupiter.
• A daring or irresistible hero.