lightning strike

Noun

Meaning

A lightning bolt, stroke of lightning, one of the events during an electrical storm when lightning strikes (an object on) the ground or an aircraft in flight.

(Britain) A (sometimes unofficial) strike by workers with little or no warning.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

lightning job action heat lightning

Related terms

wildcat strike

Examples

When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough. Robert Jordan

Why, one wonders, does lightning strike in one place rather than another? Patrick Modiano

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire! Friedrich Nietzsche

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike. P. N. Elrod

The half-human was the hottest thing he'd ever gotten anywhere near. And he'd cozied up to a lightning strike once or twice before. J.R. Ward

Close letter words and terms

lightning static lightning stone lightning storm lightning talk lightning-discharge protector lightning-fast eye movement