A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.

Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.

In mythology, a lightning flash accompanied by a material "bolt" or "dart". This is the legendary cause of the damage done by lightning. It is still used as a popular term for a lightning discharge accompanied by thunder.

The Thunderbolt is a wooden roller coaster located at Kennywood Park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Originally built by John A. Miller in 1924, the ride's name was Pippin until 1967, when it changed to Thunderbolt beginning with the 1968 season, coinciding with an expansion of the track headed up by Andy Vettel.

Thunderbolt is a wooden roller coaster currently located at Six Flags New England originally opened as the Cyclone in 1941 and was renamed Thunderbolt in 1942. There is a similar but larger white wooden roller coaster at Six Flags New England called the Cyclone. The Thunderbolt is excellent for coasting beginners because of its slight initial drop and much more gentle and less rough nature compared to its sister the Cyclone.

Thunderbolt is a 1929 film noir which tells the story of a criminal, facing execution, who wants to kill the man in the next cell for being in love with his girlfriend. It stars George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall and Eugenie Besserer.

Thunderbolt was one of a genre of "outlaw" films at the time that tended to glorify the life of the outlaw "Bushrangers" that roamed the Australian outback in pre-commonwealth days. Shortly after this movie was made, the government of New South Wales banned the manufacture of this type of film on the basis that they were promoting crime.

Thunderbolt (霹靂火) (Piklik Foh; Dead Heat in North America) is a 1995 Hong Kong film, directed by Gordon Chan and starring Jackie Chan.

A belemnite, or thunderstone.

Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.

The English word often used to translate the Sanskrit word "vajra" (Tibetan, "dorje"), which is key symbol for Vajrayana Buddhism. It means literally "Diamond Thunderbolt." It symbolizes the indestructible character of emptiness, the true nature of all things. Tibetan Buddhists use a crafted metal image of a thunderbolt in their rituals.

Thunderbolt is a Norwegian heavy metal band that combines the classical influence of bands like Iron Maiden, Helloween, and Black Sabbath with a more modern, powerful sound like that of Bad Brains and Entombed.

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a shocking surprise; "news of the attack came like a bombshell"