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chain lightning
noun
- Chiefly Northeastern and Western U.S. lightning that seems to move very quickly in wavy or zigzag lines.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chain lightning1
An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
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Example Sentences
I gathered another impression, and it was that bonefish were related to dynamite and chain lightning.
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Wilson at full is simply chain lightning, and the whole country will be talking of him by November.
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I could see their every movement, and it seemed to me that the chain lightning was striking the iron-stone all round them.
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Overhead the storm burst in fury, and flash after flash of fork, or rather chain lightning, leapt into the river.
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He did the job up pretty well, considering; and as for your Thad, he's chain lightning on the send.
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