Usually means: Pressed lightly, then quickly released.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. dabbed: Merriam-Webster
  2. dabbed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dabbed: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dabbed: Vocabulary.com
  5. dabbed: Wordnik
  6. dabbed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dabbed: Wiktionary
  8. Dabbed, dabbed: Dictionary.com
  9. dabbed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Dabbed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Dabbed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. dabbed: FreeDictionary.org
  13. dabbed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dabbed: Legal dictionary

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  1. dabbed: Encyclopedia

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  1. dabbed: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (DAB)

verb:  (transitive) To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.
verb:  (transitive) To apply a substance in this way.
verb:  To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
verb:  (slang) To apply hash oil to a heated surface for the purpose of efficient combustion.
verb:  (dance, intransitive) To perform the dab dance move, by moving both arms to one side of the body parallel with your head.
verb:  (bingo) Synonym of daub (to mark a bingo card)
noun:  A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow.
noun:  (African-American Vernacular) A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval.
noun:  A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance.
noun:  (slang) A small amount of hash oil.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural, dated, British) Fingerprint.
noun:  (dance) A hip hop dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm, briefly resting their face in the elbow, as if sneezing into their elbow.
noun:  (obsolete) A dabbler.
adverb:  With a dab, or sudden contact.
noun:  One skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept.
noun:  A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially Limanda limanda; a flounder.
noun:  (US) A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus Citharichthys.
adjective:  (obsolete, costermongers) Bad.
noun:  Initialism of digital audio broadcasting.
noun:  (Hong Kong politics) Initialism of Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (a pro-Beijing political party in the HKSAR)
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