colloq. or dial. [var., orig. Sc., of JOB v.1] trans. To thrust with the end or point of something; to poke roughly; to stab.

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1825–80.  Jamieson, To Jab, to prick sharply. Ettr. For.

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1827.  D. Johnson, Ind. Field Sports, 243. The hog … being jabbed with a spear.

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1899.  Westm. Gaz., 24 May, 2/3. M. Mendès got jabbed in the lower part of his chest, seriously if not fatally.

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  b.  To thrust (something) with an abrupt blow (into a thing or person).

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1827.  D. Johnson, Ind. Field Sports, 238. I disapprove of jabbing the spear into a hog.

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1885.  Howells, Silas Lapham, i. 6. Jabbing the point of his penknife into the writing-pad.

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  c.  absol. or intr. To stab.

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1827.  D. Johnson, Ind. Field Sports, 238. When alone, it is fair to jab.

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1891.  R. Kipling, Life’s Handicap, 119. The Khusru Kheyl jab upwards from below, remember.

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