punch

noun punches

1. countable A hit or strike with one's fist. Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
2. countable, rare A blow from something other than the fist. For in Tashbaan there is only one traffic regulation, which is that everyone who is less important has to get out of the way for everyone who is more important; unless you want a cut from a whip or a punch from the butt end of a spear.
3. uncountable Power, strength, energy. The tornado is finally losing its punch.

   Similar: oomph, pep

4. uncountable Impact. Has your ad copy plenty of punch?

Similar: blow, box, knuckle sandwich, bunch of fives

verb punches · punching · punched

1. transitive To strike with one's fist. If she punches me, I'm gonna break her nose.

   Similar: box, slug, clock

2. transitive To herd (cattle) as a cowboy. It was sure a good taste of punching cows and I even got paid!
3. transitive To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means. As night watchman he was required to punch a watchman's clock; the stations were scattered all over the place.
4. transitive To enter (information) on a device or system.
5. transitive To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force. He punched a hit into shallow left field.
6. transitive To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc) (see also the verb under Etymology 2). So I punched a hole in the roof, ah-ah, ah-ah Let the flood carry away all my pictures of you
7. To thrust against; to poke. to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow
8. UK, abbreviation, ellipsis, intransitive, slang Ellipsis of punch above one's weight, especially, to date somebody more attractive than oneself.
9. transitive To perform pigeage: to stamp down grape skins that float to the surface during fermentation.
10. transitive To emphasize; to give emphasis to. Getting a little tired of you punching that word.
11. Australia, New Zealand, slang To light marijuana in a bong. We're gonna punch a few cones.

noun punches

1. countable A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface.
2. countable A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.
3. countable A hole or opening created with a punch.
4. An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
5. A prop, as for the roof of a mine.

verb punches · punching · punched

1. To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.
2. To mark a ticket. The guard performs athletic feats in jumping from coach to coach while the train is in motion, taking orders for tickets, punching them on a bell punch in his van, and then returning to distribute them to passengers.

noun punches · punce · pince

1. uncountable, usually A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic. Then the boiling water was brought in, and such a jug of whiskey punch as was made! Take my word for it, - it did not, like honest Robin Craig's, require to be hung out on the bush to let the water drain out of it.

noun punches

1. Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genus Dodona of Asia.

noun punches

1. archaic, regional, in later use A short fat person. Here I did make the workmen drink, and saw my coach cleaned and oyled; and, staying among poor people there in the alley, did hear them call their fat child Punch, which pleased me mightily, that word being become a word of common use for all that is thick and short.

adjective more punch · most punch

1. Northern England, Scotland, archaic, in later use Short and thickset. Taken away from two Grooms on Monday the 16th inſtant, in the great Road that leads to Epping from London in Epping-Foreſt, a little gray punch Stoned Horſe, hath all his paces, thorn mane, bob tailed, marked with I. S. on the near ſhoulder, about 14 hands.

proper noun

1. UK A glove puppet who is the main character used in a Punch and Judy show.
2. Any butterfly of genus Dodona.
3. A settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
4. A former British satirical magazine, which took its name from the puppet. Any study of the railway scene around 1850 should not neglect the files of Punch. Mr. Punch was full of prejudices, it is true, but he frequently reflected (more or less fairly) the feelings of a great many people about the railways.
5. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of Suffolk Punch (“breed of horse”).

noun Punches

1. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of Suffolk Punch (“a horse of that breed”). ‘And the Punches,’ said William. ‘There’s cattle! A Suffolk Punch, when he’s a good un, is worth his weight in gold. Did you ever breed any Suffolk Punches yourself, sir?’
2. A butterfly of the genus Dodona.

proper noun Punches

1. A surname.