Definitions for stabs

stabs stab

Spelling: [stab]
IPA: /stæb/

Stabs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in stabs (absst).

Definitions for stabs

noun

  1. the act of stabbing.
  2. a thrust or blow with, or as if with, a pointed weapon.
  3. an attempt; try:
  4. a wound made by stabbing.
  5. a sudden, brief, and usually painful, sensation:

Idioms

  1. a stab in the back, an act of treachery.
  2. stab (someone) in the back, to do harm to (someone), especially to a friend or to a person who is unsuspecting or in a defenseless position.

verb (used with object)

  1. to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon:
  2. to thrust, plunge, or jab (a knife, pointed weapon, or the like) into something:
  3. to penetrate sharply or painfully:
  4. to make a piercing, thrusting, or pointing motion at or in:

verb (used without object)

  1. to thrust with or as if with a knife or other pointed weapon:
  2. to deliver a wound, as with a pointed weapon.

Origin of stabs

1325-75; (v.) Middle English (Scots) stabben late Middle English, akin to or derivative of the v.; compare Scots stob stub1

Word Value for stabs
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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