jolt

To push or shake abruptly and roughly.transitive

• The bus jolted its passengers at every turn.

To knock sharplytransitive

To shock (someone) into taking action or being alerttransitive

• I jolted her out of complacency.

To shock emotionally.transitive

• Her untimely death jolted us all.

To shake; to move with a series of jerks.intransitive

• The car jolted along the stony path.

An act of jolting.

• Timing your first coffee for mid-morning allows the caffeine to work its magic right as your body’s natural energy starts to wane. Instead of a jolt, you get a smooth, effective lift that carries you through the late morning and into the af

A surprise or shock.

A long prison sentence.slang

• After three "jolts" in prison, three separate periods of incarceration, Braly decided to try his hand at writing.

A narcotic injection.slang

The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.