Usually means: Quick, sharp poke or thrust.
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  1. jab: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. jab: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jab: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jab: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jab: Vocabulary.com
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  7. jab: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jab: Wiktionary
  9. jab: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jab: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jab: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Jab, jab: Dictionary.com
  13. jab: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. jab: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. JAB, Jab (disambiguation), Jab: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Jab: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. jab: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. jab: Rhymezone
  19. jab: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. jab: Free Dictionary
  21. jab: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. jab: Legal dictionary

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  1. jab: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. JAB: Acronym Finder
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Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. JAB: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jab (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. jab, jab: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. jab: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Jab: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Jab: Sports Definitions

(Note: See jabbed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion.
noun:  (boxing) A short straight punch.
noun:  (British) A medical hypodermic injection (vaccination or inoculation)
noun:  (British, Australia, New Zealand, sometimes Philippines) A vaccination, whether or not delivered via conventional injection.
noun:  (US, figurative) A mild verbal insult.
verb:  To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
verb:  To deliver a quick punch.
verb:  (slang, UK) To give someone an injection.
verb:  (slang) To vaccinate or inoculate someone.

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