noun. A tool for circular or other piercing.

noun. A tool for forcing a pin, bolt, or rivet in or out of a hole.

noun. A tool for stamping a design on a surface.

noun. A tool for making a countersink.

intransitive verb. To make (a hole or opening), as by using a punch or similar implement.

intransitive verb. To pierce something; make a hole or opening.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To hit with a sharp blow of the fist.

transitive verb. To drive (the fist) into or through something.

transitive verb. To drive (a ball, for example) with the fist.

transitive verb. To make (a hole) by thrusting the fist.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To poke or prod with a stick.

transitive verb. To herd (cattle).

transitive verb. To depress (the accelerator of a car) forcefully.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To depress (a key or button, for example) in order to activate a device or perform an operation.

transitive verb. To enter (data) by keying.

transitive verb. To hit (a ball) with a quick short swing.

noun. A blow with the fist.

noun. Impressive or effective force; impact. synonym: vigor.

phrasal verb. To check in formally at a job upon arrival.

phrasal verb. To enter data on a keypad or similar device.

phrasal verb. To check out formally at a job upon departure.

phrasal verb. To hit (someone) with a powerful punch, often so as to render unconscious.

phrasal verb. To call (a batter) out on a third strike, often using a punching motion as a signal.

phrasal verb. To enliven or enhance.

idiom. (beat to the punch) To make the first decisive move.

idiom. (punch the clock) To register one's arrive or departure at a job.

idiom. (punch the clock) To be employed at a job with regular hours.

noun. A beverage of fruit juices and sometimes a soft drink or carbonated water, often spiced and mixed with a wine or liquor base.

Short and fat.

noun. A short, fat fellow.

noun. A short-legged, barrel-bodied horse, of an English draft-breed.

Same as punish.

To give a blow, dig, or thrust to; beat with blows of the fist: as, to punch One on the head, or to punch one's head.

noun. A short humpbacked hook-nosed puppet, with a squeaking voice, the chief character in a street puppet-show called “Punch and Judy,” who strangles his child, beats his wife (Judy) to death, belabors a policeman, and does other tragical and outrageous things in a comical way.

To make a hole or holes in with a punch or some similar instrument; pierce; perforate: as, to punch a metal plate.

To make with or as with a punch: as, to punch a hole in something.

noun. A tool the working end of which is pointed, blunt, a continuous edge inclosing an area, or a pattern in relief or intaglio, and which acts either by pressure or percussion (applied in the direction of its longitudinal axis) to perforate or indent a solid material, or to drive out or in objects inserted in previously formed perforations or cavities.

noun. A tool used to force nail-heads below the surface.

noun. A stone-masons' chipping-tool; a puncheon.

noun. In surgery, an instrument used for extracting the stumps of teeth.

noun. In decorative art, a tool in the form of a bar, sometimes fitted with a handle and engraved at the end in a cross, concentric ring, or other device. It is used for impressing ornamental patterns upon clay or other plastic materials.

noun. The engraved model of a printing-type on the end of a steel rod: so called from its being punched in a copper bar which makes the matrix, or a reversed impression of the model.

noun. In carpentry, studding by which a roof is supported.

noun. In hydraulic engineering, a short length placed on the top of a pile to permit the monkey of a piledriver to bear upon it when it has been driven too low to be struck directly; a dolly.

noun. In coal-mining, same as pout.

noun. A punch operated by the rolling action of two levers on one fulcrum, forming a toggle.

noun. A blow, dig, or thrust, us with the fist, elbow, or knee: as, to give one a punch in the ribs or a punch on the head.

"Your goal is to deliver a short, punchy remark—thus the term punch line."

centering punch  centre punch  centrepunch  cobbler's punch  coopers' punch  

punching press  

hit  perforate  pierce  thrust  

Bunche  Munch  brunch  bunch  crunch  

beer  blow  bolt  brandy  champagne  

Mickey  Mickey Finn  aggressiveness  amperage  aperitif  

punched  punches  punching