Capturing something powerful and elusive and then being able to hold it and show it to the world.

Performing a rare feat.

A moment of creative brilliance.

Also a movie about BB King.
Coming up with that idea was like catching lightning in a bottle.
by TheLievense May 18, 2006
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Lightning in a bottle. It's when somthing so majestic and amazing can be in somthing so ordinary all you have to do is open it.
by Crackpotoldfool April 28, 2019
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When one man jizzez into a jar, closes it, and shoves it up another man's ass so that the jar shatters.
Guy 1: Hey man, my homie just shoved a cum filled jar up my ass. It shattered, and now I may have an infection.

Guy 2: Cool dude! Thats called lightning in a bottle!
by Cannabis Kermit June 19, 2024
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