ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Stabby

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈstæbi/ · Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Stabby is an adjective meaning having one or more sharp points.

Meaning

having one or more sharp points.

More Meanings

  1. (of movement) quick and thrusting
  2. (of a feeling) sudden and acute
  3. (of sound) staccato
  4. (of a look or eyes) penetrating and hostile
  5. (slang) acting in a violent and/or deranged manner
  6. (slang) prone to commit an act of stabbing
  7. (slang, by extension) angry or irritated

Example Sentences

Neither possesses a serve fast enough to dent a radar gun and their stabby backhands resemble karate chops.
At any rate there flourished by the curbing, sure enough, a wide and very stabby cactus garden, extending Tartar hospitality.
Roxy was knitting tiny finger-puppet monsters. The Gem was peppered with balls of wool and potentially stabby knitting needles.
The crowd hates the picadors who deprive the bull of its first energy to fight. The picador is fat. He's got a long pole with a stabby thing on the end. His horse is blinded in cloth. His horse is old on its last legs.

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Related dictionary entries include sharp-pointed, aculeate, acicular, pointed, aculeated, prickly.

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