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bolt in

bolt in verb: to overwhelmingly win a race.

Verb

bolt in (third-person singular simple present bolts in, present participle bolting in, simple past and past participle bolted in)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To overwhelmingly win a race.
    • some rank out-siders came "bolting in"1884, “Our Van”, in Tresham Gilbey, editor, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, page 352

Forms of bolt in

third-person singular presentbolts in
present participlebolting in
past participlebolted in
pastbolted in

Questions about bolt in

What does bolt in mean?
Bolt in means to overwhelmingly win a race.
What part of speech is bolt in?
Bolt in is a verb.
What is the past tense of bolt in?
The past tense of bolt in is bolted in.

Words near bolt in in the dictionary

  1. bolt croppers
  2. bolt cutter
  3. bolt cutters
  4. bolt down
  5. bolt from the blue
  6. bolt in
  7. bolt out of the blue
  8. bolt rope
  9. bolt ropes
  10. bolt thrower
  11. bolt throwers

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