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Punch

noun

(boxing) a blow with the fist. Synonyms: biff, clout, lick, poke, slug.

An iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl.

A tool for making holes or indentations. Synonym: puncher.

verb

(past & past part. punched; pres. part. punching)

Deliver a quick blow to. Synonym: plug.

Drive forcibly as if by a punch.

Make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation. Synonym: perforate.

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"Punch" Quotes from Famous Books

... way of distributing small seeds like those of turnip and cabbage, is to take a small pasteboard box or tin spice or baking-powder box, and punch a small hole in the bottom near one end or side. Through this the seeds can be sifted ...

— The First Book of Farming • Charles L. Goodrich

... the city is like, fancy an area of about thirty square miles crowded with houses as thick as they can stand, every house jam up against its neighbors, with only walls between—no room for yards or parks or driveways—and these houses dense with people! Then punch into these square miles of houses a thousand winding alleys, no one wide enough to be called a street, and fill up these alleys also with hurrying, perspiring, pig-tailed Chinamen. There are no stores, shops or offices ...

— Where Half The World Is Waking Up • Clarence Poe

... That punch, in those precise circumstances, would have paralyzed the average person. It didn't quite paralyze Mihul. She dropped forward, doubled up and struggling for breath, but already twisting around toward Trigger. Trigger stepped across her, picked ...

— Legacy • James H Schmitz

... purposeless lullaby is satirised in the orthodox libretto of Punch's Opera or the Dominion of Fancy, for Punch, having sung it, throws the child out of ...

— A History of Nursery Rhymes • Percy B. Green

... in these days that counts, Joan. You are to be—the punch. Eats are all right in their way, but folks do not live by bread alone; they flourish—or tea rooms ...

— The Shield of Silence • Harriet T. Comstock

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