stabby

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   having one or more sharp points

   • At any rate there flourished by the curbing, sure enough, a wide and very stabby cactus garden, extending Tartar hospitality.
   • 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.
   • Roxy was knitting tiny finger-puppet monsters. The Gem was peppered with balls of wool and potentially stabby knitting needles.
2. 2

   quick and thrusting

   • Neither possesses a serve fast enough to dent a radar gun and their stabby backhands resemble karate chops.
3. 3

   sudden and acute

   • "I feel bad for her!" said Kit, earnestly. Winced and shifted some more—stabby nerve-ending pain out of nowhere, per usual. Pressure in the temples. He could deal but hoped his eye didn't start to twitch; hated that.
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   1. 4

      staccato

      • The guitar player is playing kind of melodic licks, and the horns are stabby, accent parts.
      • Fuck yeah, Zelda kicks ass! Ratatat re-up with their second set of '80s video game-worthy instrumentals, full of stabby guitars and disco-y synths.
      • Going solo in 1970, Mayfield's eponymous debut LP featured 'Move On Up', a hit single whose stabby violins and clattering percussion helped to define the palate of funky, seventies soul […]
   2. 5

      penetrating and hostile

      • Her eyes are the stabby kind, worse than long hatpins. Honest, after one glance I felt like I was bein' held up on a fork.
      • Then I catches the eye of the stiff-necked dame with the straight nose and the gun-metal hair. No, both eyes, it was; and a cold, suspicious, stabby look is what they shoots my way.
      • Toby glittered the tears into hard, stabby looks at his father and Ma.
   3. 6

      acting in a violent and/or deranged manner

   4. 7

      prone to commit an act of stabbing

      • I don’t get mad, I get stabby.
   5. 8

      angry or irritated

      • This fool is starting to make me feel stabby. Coming back to one of his threads is like a scab you want to pick but you just know it will get infected, yet you feel oddly compelled to see just how much of a fool he has made of himself.
      • Some of the tasks can be a little difficult, and thus enjoyable, but all in all they left me feeling depressed and stabby (when you feel like stabbing someone).

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