jabn.
/dʒab/, U.S. /dʒæb/ colloquial or dialect.
1.
a. An act of jabbing; an abrupt blow with something pointed, or (in Boxing slang) with the fist.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [noun] > striking with pushing action > a thrusting blow
sparc1540
job1560
push1563
thrusta1586
poss1611
jub1688
peg1728
jab1825
stab1902
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the hand > with the fist
bobeta1400
bobettingc1440
boba1568
nevel1568
fisticuffs1600
bunch1642
condyle1644
poke1690
punch1766
fist1767
plug1798
chuckera1805
polthogue1808
fistera1834
jab1889
bust1893
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Jab, the act of pricking in this way [i.e. sharply].
1872 C. D. Warner Backlog Stud. 260 Giving the fire a jab with the poker.
1889 A. C. Gunter That Frenchman! xi. 136 A short, sharp, terrible jab of the masked man's unengaged left hand.
1899 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 198 The chief's son..made a tentative jab with a spear at the white man.
b. An injection with a hypodermic needle. slang (originally U.S.).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > hypodermic treatments > [noun] > injection or syringing > injection by hypodermic needle
hypodermatic1855
hypodermic injection1863
hypodermic1875
shot1889
piqûre1904
jab1914
hypo1925
hype1972
1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 48 Jab, current amongst morphine and cocaine fiends. A hypodermic injection.
1959 Punch 13 May 658/3 Receiving the hypodermic jab intended for the bullock.
1972 G. Durrell Catch me Colobus i. 11 Can't you give me a jab of something to keep me going?
1973 Times 17 Apr. (Liberia Suppl.) p. ii/2 The visitor must..take precautions and submit to a variety of jabs.
2. A radio signal of momentary duration. colloquial.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > signal > types of
reaction1917
relay1925
jab1932
read-out1959
squirt1968
1932 News Chron. 23 Sept. 10/7 Another film I saw was of the flight of a jab of wireless energy on its journey from the East End to King's College, Strand.
1945 Electronic Engin. 17 679/3 For this purpose they devised a radio transmitter which sent out very short pulses, or jabs, of radio energy.
Draft additions August 2007
A critical or mocking remark. Frequently with at.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > piece or instance of
mockc1425
scrip1488
derision1535
frump1553
flout1570
scoffery1577
frumpery1582
flouting-stock1593
ludification1623
rision1656
ridicule1710
jab1905
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > instance of > sharp
quippy1519
quip1532
snack?1554
gird1566
pincha1568
quib1656
hitc1668
snapper1817
shy1840
shot1841
swipe1892
jab1905
licks1971
1905 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 17 June Who was the inspiration for these verbal jabs?
1955 Van Wert (Ohio) Times-Bull. 20 Aug. 4/1 He also could not resist taking a good-natured jab at the colossus to the north.
1980 S. Heaney Preoccupations 107 Many of Moore's most quotable jabs at the romantic figure of the poet are more suggestive of affection than of a desire to afflict.
2003 Globe & Mail (Toronto) Mar. 13 s3/4 Domi also threw a jab at those who blasted the Leafs for not landing a marquee free agent.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
jabv.
/dʒab/, U.S. /dʒæb/ colloquial or dialect.
a. transitive. To thrust with the end or point of something; to poke roughly; to stab.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with sharp weapon
woundc760
stickOE
snese?c1225
stokea1300
steekc1300
bearc1330
stangc1340
chop1362
broach1377
foinc1380
strikec1390
borea1400
dag?a1400
gorea1400
gridea1400
staira1400
through-girdc1405
thrustc1410
runc1425
to run throughc1425
traversec1425
spitc1430
through-seeka1500
stitch1527
falchiona1529
stab1530
to stab (a person) in1530
stob?1530
rutc1540
rove?c1550
push1551
foxa1566
stoga1572
poniard1593
dirk1599
bestab1600
poach1602
stiletto1613
stocka1640
inrun1653
stoccado1677
dagger1694
whip1699
bayonetc1700
tomahawk1711
stug1722
chiv1725
kittle1786
sabre1790
halberd1825
jab1825
skewer1837
sword1863
poke1866
spear1869
whinger1892
pig-stick1902
shiv1926
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate > with something sharp-pointed > prick
prickOE
pointa1425
joba1500
birlc1540
punct1548
nib1558
pounce1570
punge1570
stab1570
reprick1611
jaga1700
barb1803
jab1825
rowel1891
pinprick1909
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. To Jab, to prick sharply.
1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 243 The hog..being jabbed with a spear.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 24 May 2/3 M. Mendès got jabbed in the lower part of his chest, seriously if not fatally.
b. To thrust (something) with an abrupt blow (into a thing or person).
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1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 238 I disapprove of jabbing the spear into a hog.
1885 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham I. 12 Jabbing the point of his penknife into the writing pad.
c. absol. or intransitive. To stab.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (intransitive)] > wound > wound with sharp weapon
stab1487
jab1827
1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 238 When alone, it is fair to jab.
1892 R. Kipling Life's Handicap 119 The Khusru Kheyl jab upwards from below, remember.
d. transitive. To give (a person) a stabbing blow with the fist. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > with the hand > with the fist > stabbing
job1812
jab1901
1901 R. Fitzsimmons Physical Culture 114 Jab him, if you can, with your left.
1915 E. Corri Thirty Years Boxing Referee 38 Time and again he jabbed and patted Smith cleverly on the nose with his left hand.
1959 Amer. Speech 34 155 One may be shafted or jabbed by the opposite sex, a professor..or anyone else for any real or imagined injury.
e. transitive and intransitive. To inject or inoculate (a person) with a hypodermic needle; to use (a hypodermic needle) to make an injection.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > take drugs [verb (intransitive)] > by injection
shoot1914
hypo1925
fix1938
jab1938
skin-pop1951
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > take drugs [verb (transitive)] > inject (with) drugs
shoot1914
jab1938
mainline1938
main1952
pop1952
skin1953
fix1969
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > hypodermic treatments > practise hypodermic treatment [verb (transitive)] > inject or syringe > inject with hypodermic needle
stick1933
jab1938
hypo1956
1938 Amer. Speech 13 186/1 To jab, to take drugs hypodermically.
1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 100 Be jabbed, to be inoculated or vaccinated.
1956 S. Longstreet Real Jazz xviii. 114 Not all jazz-players smoke marijuana or opium, or sniff snow or jab a vein.
a1967 J. R. Ackerley My Father & Myself (1968) xiii. 146 Dr Wadd..dashed in with a hypodermic syringe of digitalis and jabbed it so hastily, though successfully, into the back of one of his hands that it raised a large lump.
1968 ‘L. Black’ Outbreak ix. 82 Smith-road primary was jabbed. Why not our school?
Derivatives
ˈjabbing n. slang (originally U.S.).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > by injection
needle1903
jabbing1926
main line1931
mainlining1951
shooting1951
skin-popping1951
skin-pop1952
popping1957
skinning1973
1926 Flynn's 16 Jan. 638/2 Some stiffs uses mud but coke don't need any jabbin', cookin', or flops. You can hit it an' go.
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