Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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.

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’.