punch

punch is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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. noun. The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.
3. noun. A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.
4. noun. One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as, the Suffolk punch.
5. transitive verb. To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow.
6. noun. A thrust or blow.
7. noun. 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.
8. noun. An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
9. noun. A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
10. noun. To perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a blow; as, to punch a hole; to punch ticket.
11. noun. (boxing) a blow with the fist

    "I gave him a clout on his nose"

    Synonyms: biff, clout, lick, poke, slug

12. noun. a tool for making holes or indentations

    Synonyms: puncher

13. noun. an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl
14. verb. deliver a quick blow to

    "he punched me in the stomach"

    Synonyms: plug

15. verb. make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation

    "perforate the sheets of paper"

    Synonyms: perforate

16. verb. drive forcibly as if by a punch

    "the nail punched through the wall"

Synonyms

biff, clout, lick, poke, slug, puncher, plug, perforate

Common word forms

punched, puncher, punches, punching, punchable, punchless

Words from these letters

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