Definition of Punch
1. Noun. (boxing) a blow with the fist. "I gave him a clout on his nose"
Specialized synonyms: Counter, Counterpunch, Parry, Haymaker, Knockout Punch, Ko Punch, Sunday Punch, Hook, Jab, Rabbit Punch, Sucker Punch
Category relationships: Boxing, Fisticuffs, Pugilism
Generic synonyms: Blow
Derivative terms: Biff, Clout, Poke, Slug
2. Verb. Deliver a quick blow to. "The fighter managed to punch his opponent"; "He punched me in the stomach"
3. Noun. An iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl.
Specialized synonyms: Fruit Punch, Milk Punch, Cup, Wassail, Fish House Punch, May Wine, Eggnog, Glogg
4. Verb. Drive forcibly as if by a punch. "The nail punched through the wall"
5. Noun. A tool for making holes or indentations.
6. Verb. Make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation. "Perforate the sheets of paper"
Generic synonyms: Pierce
Derivative terms: Perforation, Perforation, Puncher
Definition of Punch
1. n. A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc.
2. n. The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.
3. n. A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.
4. v. t. To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow.
5. n. A thrust or blow.
6. n. A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.
7. v. t. To perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a blow; as, to punch a hole; to punch ticket.
Definition of Punch
1. to perforate with a type of tool [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
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Literary usage of Punch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"2 shows a plain "push through" drawing punch and die, the blank being punched
out to fit the set edge, and then "drawn up* or rather, it is pushed through ..."
2. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"by the fact, that a punch-bowl was in the last century considered to be a very
suitable present from a merchant or banker to a trusty clerk or book-keeper, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"punch, a well-known English comic weekly, the most famous journal of the ...
This undertaking had, however, some indirect influence on the subsequent punch. ..."
4. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"At Malta, the first greeting between Captain Tagus and some other Captain in
anchor-buttons, who came to hail him when we entered harbour, related to punch. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"punch, a well-known English comic weekly, the most famous journal of the ...
This undertaking had, however, some indirect influence on the subsequent punch. ..."
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