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Jab   /dʒæb/   Listen
Jab

noun
1.
A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).  Synonyms: jabbing, poke, poking, thrust, thrusting.  "He made a thrusting motion with his fist"
2.
A quick short straight punch.
3.
The act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow.  Synonym: dig.
verb
1.
Poke or thrust abruptly.  Synonyms: dig, poke, prod, stab.
2.
Strike or punch with quick and short blows.
3.
Stab or pierce.  Synonym: stab.



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"Jab" Quotes from Famous Books



... stands grouped around the kitchenette door for a while, watchin' him resuscitate that pale-lookin' leg of lamb, jab things into it, pour stuff over it, and mesmerize the gas oven into doin' ...
— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford
... height of eight feet. It is a solid square erection which ought to stand a good deal of weathering, and on top we have placed a bamboo pole with a flag, making the total height twenty-five feet. Building the cairn was a fine warming jab, but the ice on our whiskers often took some ten minutes thawing out. To-morrow we hope to lay out the cairns to the westward, and then to shape our course for ...
— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton
... dry sticks into the stove box, and then lifted the lid of a boiling kettle to jab a fork into the potatoes to see if they were done. The Chandler larder was reduced to the point where Imogene in her cooking had to substitute things that would do ...
— The Desert Fiddler • William H. Hamby
... the horns of the animal and his head was drawn tight to the hub of a heavy laden prairie schooner. A bullwhacker, tightly grasping the tail of the beast, would twist him to attention. The man with the branding implement heated to a white heat would quickly jab the ox on the hind quarter, burning through hair and hide and into the flesh. Then, after applying a solution of salt and water, he was left to recover as best he could. The brand would remain in evidence more than a year unless the steer was captured by cattle thieves, ...
— Dangers of the Trail in 1865 - A Narrative of Actual Events • Charles E Young
... The unfairness of that jab pushed him off balance. What did this man want of him anyway? Rennie had said it plain that he did not want Drew and Anse on ...
— Rebel Spurs • Andre Norton


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