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noun
1.
Also called dab hand. a person skilled in something; an expert.
2.
an excellent or extraordinary person or thing.
adjective
3.
expert; excellent; extraordinary.
Origin:
1685–95; of uncertain origin
1685–95; of uncertain origin
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dab1 (dæb) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb , dabs, dabbing, dabbed | |
| 1. | to touch lightly and quickly |
| 2. | (tr) to daub with short tapping strokes: to dab the wall with paint |
| 3. | (tr) to apply (paint, cream, etc) with short tapping strokes |
| —n | |
| 4. | a small amount, esp of something soft or moist: a dab of ink |
| 5. | a small light stroke or tap, as with the hand |
| 6. | chiefly (Brit) (often plural) a slang word for fingerprint |
| [C14: of imitative origin] | |
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| dab2 (dæb) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a small common European brown flatfish, Limanda limanda, covered with rough toothed scales: family Pleuronectidae: a food fish |
| 2. | (often plural) Compare sand dab any of various other small flatfish, esp flounders |
| 3. | Also called: patiki a sand flounder, Rhombosolea plebia, common around New Zealand's South Island |
| [C15: from Anglo-French dabbe, of uncertain origin] | |
| dab3 (dæb) | |
| —n | |
| informal (Brit) See dab hand | |
| [C17: perhaps from | |
| DAB | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| digital audio broadcasting | |
| dab hand | |
| —n | |
| informal (Brit) a person who is particularly skilled at something; expert: a dab hand at chess | |
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Word Origin & History
dab
c.1300, "heavy blow with a weapon," from dabben "to strike," perhaps imitative. Modern sense of "strike with a slight, quick pressure" developed by 1590s, infl. by Fr. dauber (see daub). Dab hand is British slang, 1828, from dab "expert" (1691), said to be school slang, of unknown origin.
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