Noun: jab
Sample Sentences
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He tore in for the ball, make a running jab for it and held it. [1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Chapter 9:]
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American Ward was too quick and too slick for his British rival, landing at will with razor sharp jabs and hooks and even bullying Froch at times. [2011 December 18, Ben Dirs, “Carl Froch outclassed by dazzling Andre Ward”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2022:]
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Our dog was exposed to rabies, so the whole family went to a clinic to get our jabs.
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A 'painless' sticking plaster flu jab that delivers vaccine into the skin has passed important safety tests in the first trial in people. [2017 June 28, Michelle Roberts, “Painless flu jab patch for people scared of injections”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2021:]
Nouns inflected like jab
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Originally a Scottish (unclear if Scots or Scottish English) form of English job (“peck, poke, thrust”), from Middle English jobben. See: English Nouns '
job'.
Verbs referencing "jab"
Italian Nouns
jab, Swedish Nouns
jabb.