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What (who) is dab - definition

DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF KATOWICE IN SOUTHERN POLAND
Dąb; Dab, Katowice

dab         
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Dab; Dabs; D.A.B.; DAB (disambiguation); DAB page
I. v. a.
1.
Strike, slap, box.
2.
Pat, strike gently.
II. n.
1.
Blow, stroke, pat.
2.
Lump, pat, lumpy mass.
3.
Salt-water flounder, fluke.
4.
(Colloq.) Adept, expert, proficient, masterhand, capital hand, nice hand, good hand, dabster (colloq.).
dab         
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Dab; Dabs; D.A.B.; DAB (disambiguation); DAB page
(dabs, dabbing, dabbed)
1.
If you dab something, you touch it several times using quick, light movements. If you dab a substance onto a surface, you put it there using quick, light movements.
She arrived weeping, dabbing her eyes with a tissue...
She dabbed iodine on the cuts on her forehead...
He dabbed at his lips with the napkin.
VERB: V n, V n prep/adv, V at n
2.
A dab of something is a small amount of it that is put onto a surface. (INFORMAL)
...a dab of glue.
N-COUNT: N of n
3.
A dab is a small flat fish with rough scales.
N-VAR
Dab         
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Dab; Dabs; D.A.B.; DAB (disambiguation); DAB page
·noun A small mass of anything soft or moist.
II. Dab ·noun A skillful hand; a dabster; an Expert.
III. Dab ·vi To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
IV. Dab ·noun A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.
V. Dab ·vi To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to Tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.
VI. Dab ·noun A name given to several species of flounders, ·esp. to the European species, Pleuronectes limanda. The American rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.

Wikipedia

Dąb, Katowice

Dąb (German: Domb) is a district of Katowice. It has an area of 1.86 km2 and in 2007 had 7,694 inhabitants.

Examples of use of dab
1. Dab–dab cricket encapsulates cricket in the seventies, eighties and nineties exactly.
2. Fortunately, Brendan is a dab hand at catching women.
3. The astronaut used tape to dab up some of the shavings.
4. Won‘t they? – Dab, Cambs England And they have only just come to this conclusion have they?
5. "Ofcom faces a public outcry if the DAB platform were to fail, with owners of the 6.45million DAB receivers sold to date demanding a refund." The analysts‘ warning that the industry no longer considers DAB "the future of radio" also raised the spectre of a repeat of the Betamax fiasco.