Usually means: Dance move involving arm gesture.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. DAB, dab: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. DAB, dab, dab, dab: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dab, dab, dab: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dab: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dab: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dab, dab: Wordnik
  7. DAB, dab: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. DAB, dab: Wiktionary
  9. dab: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dab: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dab: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. DAB: Dictionary.com
  13. dab: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dab: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DAB (disambiguation), DAB, Dab (dance), Dab (fish), Dab: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dab: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dab: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dab: Rhymezone
  19. dab: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dab: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. DAB: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Dab: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. dab: Free Dictionary
  24. dab: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. dab: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. dab: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. dab: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dab: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DAB: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. DAB, DAB, DAB: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. DAB: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. dab: Idioms
  5. dab: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dab, dab, dab, dab, dab, dab, dab, dab: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. D.A.B, D.A.B, dab: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)
  2. Dab: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See dabbed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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