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.
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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.
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us - Martins felt the little jab of dispensability.
Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.
My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.
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.
I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.