thunder : Idioms & Phrases

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like thunder

  • adverb with great speed or effort or intensity
    like sin; like the devil; like crazy; like mad; like hell.
    • drove like crazy
    • worked like hell to get the job done
    • ran like sin for the storm cellar
    • work like thunder
    • fought like the devil
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thunder bay

  • noun a port city in Ontario on Lake Superior
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thunder lizard

  • noun huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic
    brontosaur; Apatosaurus excelsus; apatosaurus; brontosaurus; apatosaur.
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thunder mug

  • noun a receptacle for urination or defecation in the bedroom
    potty; chamberpot.
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Thunder pumper

  • . (Zoöl.) (a) The croaker (Haploidontus grunniens). (b) The American bittern or stake-driver.
Webster 1913

Thunder rod

  • a lightning rod. R.
Webster 1913

Thunder snake

  • noun small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States
    Carphophis amoenus; worm snake.
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  • . (Zoöl.) (a) The chicken, or milk, snake. (b) A small reddish ground snake (Carphophis, ∨ Celuta, amoena) native to the Eastern United States; called also worm snake.
Webster 1913

Thunder tube

  • a fulgurite. See Fulgurite.
Webster 1913