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🤏 To touch lightly 🤏 A light touch 🧈 A small amount 🕺 A dance move 🕺 To dance 💨 To inhale concentrate
dab

dab

6 9.0
A quick dance move where you drop your head and raise one arm
  • noun
  • /dæb/
  • Texting
translation icon : dab
  • As any Millennial knows, D-A-B spells "Dab," the crazy-popular dance made famous by Cam Newton, the Carolina Panthers quarterback.

Like the first video we made, the dab is dead back in Hawaii.

Examples

  • The instructor taught us how to do the dab during the dance class, emphasizing the smooth head drop.

  • This is the first ever group, last dab in world history.

  • You want to do a dab?

    Straitjacket (2021)

  • - You know, a dab.

    Tina and Lori (2021)

  • And my dad in the corner, he was videoing it the whole time and he was just like, that's such a dab thing to do.

  • At the party, everyone gathered to show off their dance moves, and he nailed the dab perfectly.

  • Kids at the school talent show performed a series of dance moves, including the popular dab.

Synonyms

dabbing
vsdab
  • Slang
8.6

A short dance move that drops the head while raising one arm like a sneeze

is the noun form that labels the movement rather than the action

Compounds

sand dab
  • US
1 8.4

A small flat fish like a flounder from the west coast of North America eaten as food

corn dab
  • US
8.6

A small oval cake made with cornmeal that is fried or baked

Surface Forms

dab singular
dabs plural

Etymology

Dab. The modern dance move called a dab takes its name from the older word dab meaning a quick, light touch, because the pose is a short arm-and-head movement like a small 'tap'.