verb

• (transitive) To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.
  "I dabbed my face with a towel."
• (transitive) To apply a substance in this way.
  "The nurse will dab some ointment on that gash."
• (slang) To apply hash oil to a heated surface for the purpose of efficient combustion.
• (dance, intransitive) To perform the dab dance move; to move both arms, parallel with one's head, to either side of the body.
  "Look, my bruddas don't dab, we just vossi bop"

noun

• (African-American Vernacular) A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval.
  "She gave a few more dabs to his buttocks. “There. By the time you've made love to me those weals will have dried up.”"
• A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance.
• (chiefly in the plural, dated, British) Fingerprint.
  "One had Glash's dabs on it and a half-inch of Macallan at the bottom."
• (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

• (US) A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus Citharichthys.

adj

• (obsolete, costermongers) Bad.
  "Business topics are discussed in a most peculiar style. One man takes the pipe from his mouth and says, "Bill made a doogheno hit this morning." "Jem," says another, to a man just entering, "you'll stand a top o' reeb?" "On," answers Jem, "I've had a trosseno tol, and have been doing dab.""