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- noun Plural form of
dab . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dab .
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Examples
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* chodin dabs the corner of his eye …. with his own dick*
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Simon King, of restaurant 1861 near Abergavenny, is advocating that we eat fish such as dabs and flounder that have a fantastic flavour but are much cheaper than better known species such as sole.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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She dabs her eyes with a hankie, and pushes the shy girl toward our table.
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Dick pulls off his shirt, dips it in the water, dabs at the orange dirt on her face.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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Big grand numbers abound, as do dabs of unexpected instrumental colors such as trumpet and saxophone solos.
M83 Emerges With a Sound All Its Own Jim Fusilli 2011
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Living on the coast as I do, I've seen his death dealt out in dips and dabs during my visits with him and my mother; his telephoned voice the only guide I have to charting the progress of his life's decline.
Jack Seamus Bellamy 2011
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"It's so sad it's crazy," says Strahovski as she reaches for a paper towel off the snack table and dabs at her eyes.
On the Set: Inside Chuck's Shocking and Emotional Final Mission 2012
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A painter dabs a bit, stands back and dabs some more.
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Unlike most sculptors' drawings, but like many of Smith's vigorous works on paper, it exists only in terms of floating dabs of home-brewed ink on a flat surface, its rhythms echoing Japanese calligraphy, its lacy all-overness indebted to Jackson Pollock's poured paintings.
Works of Many Dimensions Karen Wilkin 2011
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He parts her scarlet hair, dabs on glue, affixes the small cameras and microphones - a halo of hardware.
Valentines, part the first mllelaurel 2009
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