Definitions for Punch

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Punch punch

Spelling: [puhnch]

IPA: /pʌntʃ/

Punch is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in Punch (chnpu).

Definitions for Punch

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 Punch

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

Examples for Punch

But this time the cigar and the punch seemed to fail of their effect.

Well, then, I will turn back with you; but the punch will all be gone, mark my words.

This affair had set us drinking, and I got a good deal of punch aboard.

He was a self-made man, and a self-destroyed man—so he wrote his own punch line.

This operation is performed by the aid of a punch and die fitted into a screw-press.

Open hand right across the face, so hard it felt like a punch.

Carton, still drinking the punch, rejoined, "Why should I be astonished?"

And while all he says he has spoken to still believe the interrogations saved lives, he said the report was a punch in the gut.

Like Mike Tyson says, you have a great fight plan until you come out and take the first punch.

The lines may not seem like much – a punch of poles, wires and equipment.