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jab

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1. jab - Noun

2. jab - Verb

Meaning

To thrust; to stab; to punch. See Job, v. t.

A thrust or stab.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It was like fighting a billy-goat, butt and run. I was saved by the jab. No jab and we would have lost it. George Foreman

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us - Martins felt the little jab of dispensability. Graham Greene

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans. Siegfried Sassoon

My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going. Billy Joe Saunders

Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab. Charles S. Dutton

I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away. Gerry Cooney

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