(countable) A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface.
(countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.
(countable) A hole or opening created with a punch.
(countable) A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.
(countable, rare) A blow from something other than the fist.
(entomology) Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genus Dodona of Asia.
(piledriving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
(uncountable) Impact.
(uncountable) Power, strength, energy.
A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.
A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
verb
(intransitive, UK, slang) Ellipsis of punch above one's weight; especially, to date somebody more attractive than oneself.
(transitive) In winemaking, to perform pigeage: to stamp down grape skins that float to the surface during fermentation.
(transitive) To enter (information) on a device or system.
(transitive) To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force.
(transitive) To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc)
(transitive) To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means.
(transitive) To strike with one's fist.
(transitive, of cattle) To herd.
To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.
