dab
dab
- n a light touch or stroke
- n a small quantity of something moist or liquid
a dab of paint - v apply (usually a liquid) to a surface
dab the wall with paint - v hit lightly
- The firmness is good, but just a dab of equivocation wouldn't hurt.
- For a guy who has spent his life smack-dab in the Washington establishment, the endorsement firmly, and finally, establishes Gore as an outsider.
- Obama's tale of his lineage begins in Kansas: "the dab-smack, landlocked center of the country, a place where decency and endurance and the pioneer spirit were joined at the hip .