Meanings
verbbolt in (third-person singular simple present bolts in, present participle bolting in, simple past and past participle bolted in)
present singular third person bolts in · participle present bolting in · participle past bolted in · past bolted in
- intransitiveslangTo 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
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