Jab
verb
To quickly push or hit something or someone, usually with something sharp or pointed.
He jabbed the thief with a knife.
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- jab someone
- jab something
verb
In boxing, to make a quick and direct punch.
The boxer jabbed his opponent in the face.
Often appears as...
- jab at
- jab in
noun
A quick, sharp punch.
He threw a quick jab to his opponent's chest.
Often appears as...
- throw a jab
- quick jab
noun
A quick and sharp comment or criticism.
He couldn't resist a jab at his friend's bad taste in clothes.
Often appears as...
- take a jab
- quick jab
verb
To inject someone with something, usually a medicine or drug, with a needle.
The doctor jabbed me with a needle.
Often appears as...
- jab with needle
- jab in arm
verb
To quickly push or hit something or someone, usually with something sharp or pointed.
He jabbed the thief with a knife.
Often appears as...
- jab someone
- jab something
verb
In boxing, to make a quick and direct punch.
The boxer jabbed his opponent in the face.
Often appears as...
- jab at
- jab in
noun
A quick, sharp punch.
He threw a quick jab to his opponent's chest.
Often appears as...
- throw a jab
- quick jab
noun
A quick and sharp comment or criticism.
He couldn't resist a jab at his friend's bad taste in clothes.
Often appears as...
- take a jab
- quick jab
verb
To inject someone with something, usually a medicine or drug, with a needle.
The doctor jabbed me with a needle.
Often appears as...
- jab with needle
- jab in arm
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Pro Tip 1/2Physical aggression
Used to describe a sudden, forceful, and often aggressive action with sharp objects.
She jabbed at the ice with a pick.
Pro Tip 2/2Defensive action
Can imply a quick defensive move, often out of necessity to protect oneself.
He jabbed his stick at the snarling dog.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical aggression
Used to describe a sudden, forceful, and often aggressive action with sharp objects.
She jabbed at the ice with a pick.
Pro Tip 2/2Defensive action
Can imply a quick defensive move, often out of necessity to protect oneself.
He jabbed his stick at the snarling dog.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical aggression
Used to describe a sudden, forceful, and often aggressive action with sharp objects.
She jabbed at the ice with a pick.
Pro Tip 2/2Defensive action
Can imply a quick defensive move, often out of necessity to protect oneself.
He jabbed his stick at the snarling dog.
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Trust, morality -- and...
and a half some mad scientist says to jab your arm with a needle and take four tubes of blood and now you want me to give up this money and ship it to a stranger so this was the birth of vampire economics make a decision give me some blood so in fact extremal economists had run this task around the world and from much higher stakes and
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3 ways to spot a bad...
But it's also more responsible data visualization, because if you were to show the exact probabilities, maybe that would encourage people to get their flu jabs at the wrong time. The point of these shaky lines is so that people remember these imprecisions, but also so they don't necessarily walk away with a specific number,
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Hunting With Falcons:...
know how their feathers are shaped and long toes and that little notch in their nose cuts the air and allows them to breathe while they come down and strike their prey with force and when they're coming to approach their game you hear it before you see it through that air make contact this like a jab punch the
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The myth of Anansi, the...
Sure enough, mighty Osebo soon fell in. Anansi scolded Osebo for his carelessness, but offered to rescue him. As he helped Osebo out of the pit, Anansi swiftly jabbed him with his knife. Osebo fell back to the ground where Anansi wound him up tight-tight in spider thread.
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Double the Lion Prides –...
snap has given up doing his activity they call it needling I'm gonna stick that beak in quite deep you see it with hoop who's the ground hoop who's they walk around there what the not a normal common Hoopoe they're jabbing their beak in looking for any form of insects on
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Fatal Encounter with...
Mum was not going to give up on her baby though, and she just charged and charged and jabbed the baboon with her horns, and the baboon leapt back and dropped the baby, and for a moment it looked like the mum might be able to defend it.
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Boxing Background PIPE...
in France and the guy throw a jab and he was a softball truthfully as I get hit I'll start even moved a lot better hahaha didn't want to get hit again right so um you brought it something you
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The Big Cat Keeper Goes...
take the animals they'll go in the corridor and put them into a squeeze cage and then if you can help us we'll give them a cat flu vaccine a rabies jab
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Greatest Fights In The...
the octopus's impressive jab holds the french head at bay
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Sarcastic Fringehead...
impressive jab holds the fringe head at
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Trust, morality -- and...
and a half some mad scientist says to jab your arm with a needle and take four tubes of blood and now you want me to give up this money and ship it to a stranger so this was the birth of vampire economics make a decision give me some blood so in fact extremal economists had run this task around the world and from much higher stakes and
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3 ways to spot a bad...
But it's also more responsible data visualization, because if you were to show the exact probabilities, maybe that would encourage people to get their flu jabs at the wrong time. The point of these shaky lines is so that people remember these imprecisions, but also so they don't necessarily walk away with a specific number,
Video examples
Hunting With Falcons:...
know how their feathers are shaped and long toes and that little notch in their nose cuts the air and allows them to breathe while they come down and strike their prey with force and when they're coming to approach their game you hear it before you see it through that air make contact this like a jab punch the
Video examples
The myth of Anansi, the...
Sure enough, mighty Osebo soon fell in. Anansi scolded Osebo for his carelessness, but offered to rescue him. As he helped Osebo out of the pit, Anansi swiftly jabbed him with his knife. Osebo fell back to the ground where Anansi wound him up tight-tight in spider thread.
Video examples
Double the Lion Prides –...
snap has given up doing his activity they call it needling I'm gonna stick that beak in quite deep you see it with hoop who's the ground hoop who's they walk around there what the not a normal common Hoopoe they're jabbing their beak in looking for any form of insects on
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Fatal Encounter with...
Mum was not going to give up on her baby though, and she just charged and charged and jabbed the baboon with her horns, and the baboon leapt back and dropped the baby, and for a moment it looked like the mum might be able to defend it.
Video examples
Boxing Background PIPE...
in France and the guy throw a jab and he was a softball truthfully as I get hit I'll start even moved a lot better hahaha didn't want to get hit again right so um you brought it something you
Video examples
The Big Cat Keeper Goes...
take the animals they'll go in the corridor and put them into a squeeze cage and then if you can help us we'll give them a cat flu vaccine a rabies jab
Video examples
Greatest Fights In The...
the octopus's impressive jab holds the french head at bay
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Sarcastic Fringehead...
impressive jab holds the fringe head at
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George Foreman
American Boxer
We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started that rumor. I noticed if I did weights a couple of times a week, I would be able to hit that jab a lot longer. After sparring, everybody's gone, and I sneak into the weight room. Spend 40 minutes in there lifting weights.
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Dean-Charles Chapman
English Actor
When I first signed on to play Tommen, I started speculating about when he was going to die. I sort of knew he wouldn't be the last one on the throne, but Tommen doesn't really deserve to have his throat slit or his stomach jabbed. In a way, Tommen died the way he was - it was a peaceful death.
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Richard P. Feynman
American Physicist
In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.
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AJ Lee
American Athlete
I think everything I've tried to do, whether or not it's come off that way immediately, is for the greater good. I'll take the jabs I need to in order to help us all in the long run.
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Harrison Barnes
American Basketball Player
Staying low, not dipping the basketball, being efficient on my jabs and movements - paying attention to these things helped me grow and made me the player I wanted to be.
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Daniel Dubois
British Athlete
People have just said about me so far that I'm just a big puncher, but I showed that I can command a fight behind my jab, which is the foundation of all good boxing.
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Jermall Charlo
American Boxer
If I'm the best in the world and if I have the best jab in the world, why not risk a little bit of that for someone who needs it?
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Joseph Parker
New Zealander Athlete
I feel like the guitar playing gives me rhythm with my punches - really helps to change up my jab.
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Rose Namajunas
American Athlete
All my jabs, they're all different. I have a million different jabs.
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Siegfried Sassoon
English Poet
Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.
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George Foreman
American Boxer
We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started that rumor. I noticed if I did weights a couple of times a week, I would be able to hit that jab a lot longer. After sparring, everybody's gone, and I sneak into the weight room. Spend 40 minutes in there lifting weights.
Quote examples
Dean-Charles Chapman
English Actor
When I first signed on to play Tommen, I started speculating about when he was going to die. I sort of knew he wouldn't be the last one on the throne, but Tommen doesn't really deserve to have his throat slit or his stomach jabbed. In a way, Tommen died the way he was - it was a peaceful death.
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Richard P. Feynman
American Physicist
In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.
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AJ Lee
American Athlete
I think everything I've tried to do, whether or not it's come off that way immediately, is for the greater good. I'll take the jabs I need to in order to help us all in the long run.
Quote examples
Harrison Barnes
American Basketball Player
Staying low, not dipping the basketball, being efficient on my jabs and movements - paying attention to these things helped me grow and made me the player I wanted to be.
Quote examples
Daniel Dubois
British Athlete
People have just said about me so far that I'm just a big puncher, but I showed that I can command a fight behind my jab, which is the foundation of all good boxing.
Quote examples
Jermall Charlo
American Boxer
If I'm the best in the world and if I have the best jab in the world, why not risk a little bit of that for someone who needs it?
Quote examples
Joseph Parker
New Zealander Athlete
I feel like the guitar playing gives me rhythm with my punches - really helps to change up my jab.
Quote examples
Rose Namajunas
American Athlete
All my jabs, they're all different. I have a million different jabs.
Quote examples
Siegfried Sassoon
English Poet
Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.
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