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Jab

noun

A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow). Synonyms: jabbing, poke, poking, thrust, thrusting. "He made a thrusting motion with his fist"

A quick short straight punch.

The act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow. Synonym: dig.

verb

Poke or thrust abruptly. Synonyms: dig, poke, prod, stab.

Strike or punch with quick and short blows.

Stab or pierce. Synonym: stab.

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"Jab" Quotes from Famous Books

... my doin's. She made me. She told me to set here an' keep Mr. Wingate in, an' if he broke out I wasn't to let him. I don't know what for. I didn't ask questions. 'Twa'n't none o' my business, anyway. So I was just trying to jab him back. She fed me first rate. ...

— Reels and Spindles - A Story of Mill Life • Evelyn Raymond

... Cheever had bent his neck just enough to escape the fist. He met the weight of Dyckman's rush with all his own weight in a short-arm jab that rocked Dyckman's whole frame and crumpled the white cuirass of ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

... lantern, and Mister Lynch had his hands free for business. He met Blackie's egress with a careless jab of his fist that up-ended the unfortunate stiff, and the injunction, "Hearty, now, ...

— The Blood Ship • Norman Springer

... regiment. One or two turned, and there was a bit of a barney. I stuck one chap, and was just going to stick another—a fellow in blue jumping around in a queer kind of way—when all of a sudden he gave a jab in the back to one of his ...

— The Gentleman - A Romance of the Sea • Alfred Ollivant

... lub ob goodness—-" gasped Sambo. But Nicolas was determined. He made the jab, and Sambo all but lost the little ...

— The Young Engineers on the Gulf - The Dread Mystery of the Million Dollar Breakwater • H. Irving Hancock

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