A short-lived glowing ball sometimes observed to float in the air and thought to consist of ionized gas associated with thunderstorms.

plural of lightning detector

plural of lightning conductor

Illegally distilled whiskey.

(meteorology) A system that displays a map of the position of recorded or real-time lightning discharges relative to the user or other objects.

Intracloud lightning; lightning which occurs within a cloud, resulting in the discharge of electricity between regions of the cloud. (Often, but not always, this takes the form of sheet lightning.)

plural of lightning bug

(US, informal) Applejack.

plural of lightning rod

A relatively rare form of cloud-to-ground lightning which appears to break up into a string of short, bright sections, and lasts longer than the usual discharge channel.