<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.</li><li>an imaginary bolt or dart conceived as the material destructive agent cast to earth in a flash of lightning: the thunderbolts of Jove.</li><li>something very destructive, terrible, severe, sudden, or startling.</li><li>a person who acts with fury or with sudden and irresistible force.</li></ul>