dab

1. (African-American Vernacular) A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval.Examples: "She gave a few more dabs to his buttocks. “There. By the time you've made love to me those weals will have dried up.”"; "The men gave each other dabs and another bear hug."; "I step closer to Profit and draw in a deep, steadying breath while the brothers exchange dabs. “What's up, fam? I see you finally made it.”"

2. A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance.Synonyms: blob, ace, tinge, atom, aught, bissel, bit, crumbslang

3. (chiefly in the plural, dated, British) Fingerprint.Examples: "One had Glash's dabs on it and a half-inch of Macallan at the bottom."Britishdatedin-plural

4. (dance) A hip hop dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm, briefly resting their face in the elbow, as if sneezing into their elbow.

5. (obsolete) A dabbler.Synonyms: amateur, dilettanteobsolete

1. (US) A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus Citharichthys.US

1. (obsolete, costermongers) Bad.Examples: "Business topics are discussed in a most peculiar style. One man takes the pipe from his mouth and says, "Bill made a doogheno hit this morning." "Jem," says another, to a man just entering, "you'll stand a top o' reeb?" "On," answers Jem, "I've had a trosseno tol, and have been doing dab.""; "One afternoon, arriving at his stall later than usual, I said, almost unknowingly, 'A doogheno or a dabheno?' Jo, who had often chaffed me for my awkward mimicking of coster language, didn't even look up from peeling his apple. 'Dab,' he said, with a little shake of his head."Synonyms: trossenoAntonyms: doog, dooghenoobsolete

1. (Hong Kong politics) Initialism of Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (a pro-Beijing political party in the HKSAR).Hong-Kongabbreviationalt-ofinitialism