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

to dab

1 9.1
To drop your head while raising one arm as a quick dance move
  • verb
  • /dæb/
  • Slang
translation icon : hacer el dab
  • At the party, everyone was excited to dab to the beat of the music.

Examples

  • And then I'm going to go ahead and just dab, dab, dab there.

  • So now you're going to dab, dab, dab.

  • OK, just dab, dab, dab, dab, dab, dab, dab.

  • Look at how I'm just dabbing in dab, dab, dab.

  • Apparently everyone just dabs when they're alone.

  • I know, but don't Jag Jag dab dag, don't dab me.

  • When the chorus came on, she raised her arm and did a quick dab with a big smile.

  • The instructor showed the kids how to dab during the dance routine for the performance.

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 infinitive
dabbed past
dabbed past participle
dabbing present participle
dabs third person singular

Etymology

Dab. To dab (dance) comes from the same old idea of a quick, light touch, so the verb describes making that brief arm-and-head motion like a tiny 'tap'.