punch

1. (transitive) To strike with one's fist.Examples: "If she punches me, I'm gonna break her nose."Synonyms: box, slugtransitive

2. (transitive, of cattle) To herd.transitive

3. (transitive) To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means.Examples: "As night watchman he was required to punch a watchman's clock; the stations were scattered all over the place."; "The patrol clock and punch key system made sure that crewmen completed their patrols. At the far end of his patrol, he used a key to punch his clock and start the return trip."; "Another shipmate remembered the watch clock on the strap we had to carry to punching stations. He was assigned to a guard shack. He had rounds to the Officer's Club and sleeping quarters where he'd have to punch the clock at different stations."transitive

4. (transitive) To enter (information) on a device or system.transitive

5. (transitive) To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force.Examples: "He punched a hit into shallow left field."transitive

6. (transitive) To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc) (see also the verb under Etymology 2).Examples: "So I punched a hole in the roof, ah-ah, ah-ah Let the flood carry away all my pictures of you"transitive

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.countable

2. (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.countable

3. (countable) A hole or opening created with a punch.countable

4. (piledriving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.

1. (entomology) Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genus Dodona of Asia.

1. (now rare, regional in later use) A short fat person.Examples: "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."; "The company at the maſquerade on May 13, at the Pantheon, was not ſo numerous as uſual. However, there were ſome very good dreſſes, and the characters well ſupported; in particular a punch, who afforded great entertainment."; "He rides a low poney when on parade and his dress being of the fassion some forty years ago, he has a drole appearance. He has acquired the cognomen of “Punch on a Pig.”"archaicregional

1. (now rare, Scotland and Northern England in later use) Short and thickset.Examples: "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."; "They are generally very much prejudiced in favour of their own Race, whoſe Beauty they think conſiſts in having little Eyes ſunk deep in the Head, black thick Brows, a large flat Noſe and Face, and a ſhort punch Shape, eſpecially for the Women; […]"; "The sexton and his companion had been employed as carpenters on the preparations for the celebrated Stratford Jubilee; and they remembered Garrick, the prime mover of the fête, who superintended the arrangements; and who, according to the sexton, was “a short punch man, very lively and bustling.”"Northern-EnglandScotlandarchaic