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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

... on his shoulder, a band of these gamins of the wilds would follow him teasing at his heels. Ishi would turn upon them with feigned fury and chase them back into the shadows or wield his bow as a short lance and jab them vigorously in the ...

— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope

... around in a quick circle at the haymow, and I thought that if Bob Till and Shorty Long had been there, they might have hidden it under some hay just for meanness, so I got a pitch fork and started to jab it into the hay all around in different places in the haymow, and Pop looked in a tunnel under a long beam, and also we all looked down stairs and all around. Once I looked up into the cupola, and had a half-glad feeling in my heart ...

— Shenanigans at Sugar Creek • Paul Hutchens

... Professor, with a dexterous jab of his cue at the pool-balls—"then, in your estimation, an author is a thing to be led about by the nose by the beings he selects for ...

— A Rebellious Heroine • John Kendrick Bangs

... sheet, on the left, is the magical word, Abracadabra, written in the usual triangular form; in the centre, a number of planetary symbols, and on the right, a circular figure filled in with lines and symbols, and beneath them the words, 'By Jah, Joh, Jab.' It was the custom to rub these charms over the cattle, etc. a number of times, while some incantation was being mumbled. The paper was then carefully folded up, and put in some safe place where the animals were housed, as ...

— Welsh Folk-Lore - a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales • Elias Owen

... glass door—on the veranda. I think you might get in there!" She made a jab with the pencil. "Of course I should hate awfully to have you get caught! But you must have had a lot of experience, and with all ...

— A Reversible Santa Claus • Meredith Nicholson

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