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Original entry ↗A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion. · A short straight punch. · A medical hypodermic injection (vaccination or inoculation). · A vaccination, whether or not delivered by means of a conventional injection.
To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion. · To deliver a quick punch. · To give someone an injection. · To vaccinate or inoculate someone.
Originally a Scottish (unclear if Scots or Scottish English) form of English job (“peck, poke, thrust”), from Middle English jobben.
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