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

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

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