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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.
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Dab hand
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| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| 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. |
Origin:
1685–95; of uncertain origin
1685–95; of uncertain origin
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| 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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