jolt, v. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

jolt v.

1. to have sexual intercourse; thus jolting n.

1607		Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe I ii: Yet most of your Citizens wiues loue iolting?
1706		Fifteen Comforts of Cuckoldom 1: Alas they had no other Business at Church than to meet their Gallants, who presently coaches ’em, because they dearly love Jolting.
1725		View of London & Westminster (2nd part) 35/1: [in a list of prostitutes] Madam Jolt, at 400l. per Ann. besides an Equipage, &c.

2. (orig. US) to hit or kill someone.

1864		J. Horrocks letter in My Dear Parents 21 May 82: An Irishman who was standing near said, ‘If I was one of the men carrying him I would dump him,’ meaning jolt him.
1909		‘A “Push” Story’ in Bulletin (Sydney) 2 Sept. 17/1: ‘Prodder jolted one Hop on th’ jaw' [...] ’n’ sprung f’r th’ street’ .
1910		Wodehouse Gentleman of Leisure Ch. xxii: I’m goin’ to try an’ get busy before he can see who I am [...] an’ jolt him one on de point of de jaw.
1919		A. Baer Two and Three 17 Mar. [synd. col.] Being a life member of the weaker sex she can’t jolt him for more than 16 yards.
1931		Irwin Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 111: Jolt. – To strike.
1962		Ragen & Finston World’s Toughest Prison 805: jolt – To strike.

3. (US, also jolt up) to drink.

1916

J. London ‘The Princess’ Complete Short Stories (1993) III 2475: He jolted up with a couple more stiff ones of gin.

4. (US Und./prison) to sentence to prison.

1927		Nichols & Tully Twenty Below Act II: She’s the one got me lagged last time I was jolted.
1933		Ersine Und. and Prison Sl.
1989		J. Morton Lowspeak.

5. (US drugs) to inject a drug.

1953		W. Brown Monkey On My Back (1954) 155: He declared that he was ‘off the stuff,’ that he would never ‘jolt again’.
1954		Kerouac letter May in Charters I (1995) 413: I rush out and fetch Mary, she jolts.
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 13: Jolt — [...] to inject a drug.

6. (Scot.) to abscond.

1973

(con. mid-1960s) J. Patrick Glasgow Gang Observed 97: He had been serving twenty-eight days detention in the last week of which he had ‘shot the craw’ and ‘jolted’.