Definitions for punches

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Spelling: [puhnch]
IPA: /pʌntʃ/

Punches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in punches (cehnpsu).

Definitions for punches

noun

  1. a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.
  2. forcefulness, effectiveness, or pungency in content or appeal; power; zest:
  3. a tool or machine for perforating or stamping materials, driving nails, etc.
  4. the solid upper die of a punch press, used with a hollow die to blank out shaped pieces of sheet metal or the like.
  5. a beverage consisting of wine or spirits mixed with fruit juice, soda, water, milk, or the like, and flavored with sugar, spices, etc.
  6. a beverage of two or more fruit juices, sugar, and water, sometimes carbonated.
  7. the chief male character in a Punch-and-Judy show.

Idioms

  1. pull punches, to lessen deliberately the force of one's blows. Informal. to act with restraint or hold back the full force or implications of something:
  2. roll with the punches, Informal. to cope with and survive adversity:
  3. pleased as Punch, highly pleased; delighted:

Verb phrases

  1. punch away, Informal. to keep trying or working, especially in difficult or discouraging circumstances; persevere:
  2. punch in, to record one's time of arrival at work by punching a time clock. to keyboard (information) into a computer:
  3. punch out, to record one's time of departure from work by punching a time clock. Slang. to beat up or knock out with the fists. to extract (information) from a computer by the use of a keyboard: to bail out; eject from an aircraft.
  4. punch up, to call up (information) on a computer by the use of a keyboard: Informal. to enliven, as with fresh ideas or additional material:

verb (used with object)

  1. to give a sharp thrust or blow to, especially with the fist.
  2. Western U.S. and Western Canada. to drive (cattle).
  3. to poke or prod, as with a stick.
  4. Informal. to deliver (lines in a play, a musical passage, or the like) with vigor.
  5. to strike or hit in operating:
  6. to put into operation with or as if with a blow:
  7. Baseball. to hit (the ball) with a short, chopping motion rather than with a full swing:
  8. to cut, stamp, pierce, perforate, form, or drive with a tool or machine that punches.

verb (used without object)

  1. to give a sharp blow to a person or thing, as with the fist:
  2. to work at or on something with or as if with a mechanical punch.

Origin of punches

1350-1400; Middle English punchen (v.); apparently variant of pounce1

Examples for punches

Tillie, the dining-room girl, punches for every meal you get.

The Good Wife, this season, has faced a similar challenge but seems prepared to roll with the punches.

The shocking truth stunned him even more than Nappy's punches.

“The punches and kicks eventually knocked me unconscious and left me completely unresponsive,” Singh explained.

He overwhelmed King with avalanches of punches, and King did nothing.

No doubt Smith hopes to paint Glock as a monster once again, and the theatrical complaint pulls no punches.

His punches, weak and futile at first, became stiff and accurate.

She starred in one of my favorite movies, LONE STAR… RICHARD PLEPLER punches in the HBO GO “launch codes”.

The fear that Pascal might weather the storm has Du Vernay, Oprah Winfrey, and other Hollywood elites pulling their punches.

Frankie took to the ropes to make Nappy shorten his punches.

Word Value for punches
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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