Meaning of punch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.
   uncountable, usually
2. Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genus Dodona of Asia.
3. A short fat person.
   archaic, regional
4. A glove puppet who is the main character used in a Punch and Judy show.
   British
5. Ellipsis of Suffolk Punch (“type of horse”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
6. A surname.
7. A hit or strike with one's fist.
   countable
8. A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface.
   countable
9. Any butterfly of genus Dodona.
10. A butterfly of the genus Dodona.
11. A blow from something other than the fist.
    countable, rare
12. A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.
    countable
13. Power, strength, energy.
    uncountable
14. A hole or opening created with a punch.
    countable
15. Impact.
    uncountable
16. An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
17. A prop, as for the roof of a mine.

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Examples

“Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.”

“For in Tashbaan there is only one traffic regulation, which is that everyone who is less important has to get out of the way for everyone who is more important; unless you want a cut from a whip or a punch from the butt end of a spear.”

“The tornado is finally losing its punch.”

“Nixon inadvertently took most of the punch out of the Red Scare by trekking to Peking and Moscow.”

“The theorizing often lacks punch and tightness, and that is because Kleinberg is unresolved about how to think about the facts, unsure which are the relevant facts, unsure that thinking itself will be liberating for him.”

“Here I did make the workmen drink, and saw my coach cleaned and oyled; and, staying among poor people there in the alley, did hear them call their fat child Punch, which pleased me mightily, that word being become a word of common use for all that is thick and short.”

“The company at the maſquerade on May 13, at the Pantheon, was not ſo numerous as uſual. However, there were ſome very good dreſſes, and the characters well ſupported; in particular a punch, who afforded great entertainment.”

“He rides a low poney when on parade and his dress being of the fassion some forty years ago, he has a drole appearance. He has acquired the cognomen of “Punch on a Pig.””

“Now the effigies makes Robert to have been a juvenile figure of the best height, 5 f. 10 inch.; taller or shorter men being generally ill-made, knock-kneed, or Punches.”

“‘And the Punches,’ said William. ‘There’s cattle! A Suffolk Punch, when he’s a good un, is worth his weight in gold. Did you ever breed any Suffolk Punches yourself, sir?’”

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