jab

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++jab1 /dʒæb/ verb (jabbed, jabbing) [intransitive, transitive]  PUSHto push something into or towards something else with short quick movements 戳，刺，捅；猛击jab at She jabbed at the elevator buttons. 她猛地按下电梯按钮。 When I didn’t respond, he jabbed a finger at me. 我没有回应，他就用手指捅了我一下。jab somebody with something Stop jabbing me with your elbow! 别用胳膊肘捅我！jab something into something The soldier jabbed a rifle into his ribs. 那个士兵用步枪戳他的肋骨。→ See Verb table

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jab• The beat drops and Sister Souljah marches on, up and down the stage, jabbing at the audience with her finger.• Occasionally he would jab futilely at a passing luminous trail.• Connors jabbed his finger in the umpire's face.• I jab his fist, deflecting it as I shuffle back.• Your friend jabs his spear right at it, but he misses and the fish swims away.• Uh, jabbed myself on the corner, jabbed myself with the corner.• I jab smartly, snapping out into his unsuspecting face and make solid contact against his nose.• Selecting a clear-looking spot she jabbed the fork into the earth and stood on the crossbar.jab at• She jabbed at the buttons on the remote control.jab2 noun [countable]  1  PUSHa sudden hard hit, especially with a pointed object or your fist (=closed hand) 〔用尖物〕戳，刺，捅；〔用拳头〕猛击 a boxer with a good left jab 能打出漂亮左刺拳的拳击手2  something you say to criticize someone or something else 批评，攻击 White House officials took a sharp jab at the Democrats’ plan. 白宫官员对民主党的计划作出尖锐的批评。3  British English informalDRUG an injection given to prevent you from catching a disease 预防针 SYN shot a typhoid jab 伤寒预防针

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jab• He puts you to sleep with those little jabs.• Eventually she manages to deliver a particularly nasty jab and he goes up.• When the war ended he sought me out to offer me choice of jabs.• A combination of pressure from civil libertarians and right-wing militias, interesting left-right jabs...• Me thinking I'd probably got some filthy fever in spite of the jabs.• Council members took jabs and butted heads and bit off ears, figuratively speaking.• The other clawed into it, mercilessly pecking while its prey squawked with weakening jabs of its beak.left jab• His left jab might have been the cleanest scoring punch of the entire championships.• But they set up my left jab.• The left jab was a quick learn.• Then he called Rufus and told him to take the class through left jab, from the top.Origin jab1 (1800-1900) job “to jab” ((15-20 centuries)), probably copying the action

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jab¹ /dʒæb/ verb (past tense and past participle jabbed, present participle jabbing) [intransitive and transitive]to push something into or towards something else with short quick movements
    jab at
    She jabbed at the elevator buttons.
    When I didn’t respond, he jabbed a finger at me.
    jab somebody with something
    Stop jabbing me with your elbow!
    jab something into something
    The soldier jabbed a rifle into his ribs.

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jab² noun [countable]
1. a sudden hard hit, especially with a pointed object or your fist (=closed hand):
    a boxer with a good left jab
2. something you say to criticize someone or something else:
    White House officials took a sharp jab at the Democrats’ plan.
3. British English informal an injection given to prevent you from catching a disease
   SYN  shot:
    a typhoid jab