colloq. or dial. [f. prec. vb.] An act of jabbing; an abrupt blow with something pointed, or (in pugilistic slang) with the fist.
1825–80. Jamieson, Jab, the act of pricking in this way [see JAB v.].
1872. C. D. Warner, Backlog Studies, 260. Giving the fire a jab with the poker.
1889. A. C. Gunter, That Frenchman! xi. 136. A short, sharp, terrible jab of the masked man’s unengaged left hand.
1899. J. Conrad, Heart of Darkness, in Blackw. Mag., Feb., 198/2. The chief’s son … made a tentative jab with a spear at the white man.
