Definitions for DAB

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DAB dab

Spelling: [dab]

IPA: /dæb/

Dab is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in DAB (abd).

Definitions for DAB

noun

1. a quick or light blow; a pat, as with the hand or something soft.
2. a small moist lump or mass:
3. a small quantity:
4. a dose of cannabis extract oil.
5. a dance move that involves posing with one’s nose in the crook of a bent elbow at chest level while extending the other arm to the side at or above shoulder level, often performed as a celebratory posture in sports or other competitions.
6. any of several flatfishes of the genus Limanda, especially the European flatfish, L. limanda.
7. Also called dab hand. a person skilled in something; an expert.
8. an excellent or extraordinary person or thing.

adjective

1. expert; excellent; extraordinary.

verb (used with object)

1. to pat or tap gently, as with something soft or moist:
2. to apply (a substance) by light strokes:
3. to strike, especially lightly, as with the hand.
4. to consume (cannabis) by inhaling the vapor of heated cannabis extract oil.
5. Masonry. to dress (stonework) with a pointed tool.
6. Western U.S. to throw (a rope or line) in an effort to lasso or catch something:

verb (used without object)

1. to strike lightly; make a dab; pat:
2. to consume cannabis by inhaling the vapor of heated cannabis extract oil.

Origin of DAB

1250-1300; Middle English dabben; compare Norwegian dabbe “to shuffle along, walk slowly,” German tappen “to feel along, grope”

Examples for DAB

But a dab of varnish, a touch of gilding here and there, was all that was necessary.

dab says the truth—however frightening it may be—ultimately will keep people calm.

The candle has been lighted and stuck with a dab of grease on the ledge.

She was rubbing distressfully at a dab of rouge on her cheek.

Perspiration is a crucial ingredient, but even a dab of it will do you proud.

Williams raised the end of a white hospital sheet to dab at the tears tricking down from behind his dark glasses.

Recently, at a pot-centered radio program, someone offered me a “dab” of butane honey oil (BHO)—a concentrated form of cannabis.

"It's my own hair, Jenny Walters," said dab, almost savagely.

They dab a splotch of sheep-dip on the place and go right ahead.

Fancy it did, your honour; for the Colonel was a dab with the scissors.