A catapultic kind of action. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : His brilliant performance in the play catapulted him to stardom. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : The car catapulted down the highway. When he heard the alarm he catapulted out of bed. From Dictionary.com.
He was flung with catapultic force against a frightened cow. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
Princeton line, wished to stay in the game it would be necessary to watch out for his catapultic lunges. From Wordnik.com. [Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball] Reference
He had taken his prisoner as far as he could possibly reach: then, assembling and concentrating all available power, he had given him a catapultic shove into the absolutely unknown and utterly unknowable. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Lens]
"Yes," cried Mr. Sagittarius, in a catapultic manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Prophet of Berkeley Square] Reference
Also, in that same half-hour Rann and Quade had been sure of him, and he had given them the surprise of their lives by his catapultic disappearance through the window. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunted Woman] Reference
But the bashing balls are showered upon them right and left from scores of catapultic arms -- and the day is going sore against them, though they fight less like men than devils. From Wordnik.com. [Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2] Reference
Meanwhile Chairman had dexterously put and run through supplementary vote for Excess of Expenditure; friends near him had got the catapultic Major down again, in time to hear Chairman declare "the. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893] Reference
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