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bolting in

bolting in is the present participle and gerund of bolt in.

Meaning of bolt in

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

Questions about bolting in

What is bolting in the present participle and gerund of?
Bolting in is the present participle and gerund of bolt in.

Words near bolting in in the dictionary

  1. bolti
  2. bolties
  3. bolting
  4. bolting cloth
  5. bolting down
  6. bolting in
  7. bolting to the bran
  8. boltings
  9. Boltinhouse
  10. boltis
  11. boltless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bolting in (page history and authors); bolt in (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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