Punch vs. Slap — What's the Difference?

A tool for circular or other piercing

A sharp blow made with the open hand or with a flat object; a smack.

A tool for forcing a pin, bolt, or rivet in or out of a hole.

The sound of such a blow.

A tool for stamping a design on a surface.

A sharp insult

A tool for making a countersink.

To strike with the palm of the hand or a flat object

A blow with the fist.

To cause to strike forcefully and loudly

Impressive or effective force; impact.

To put or place quickly or carelessly

A beverage of fruit juices and sometimes a soft drink or carbonated water, often spiced and mixed with a wine or liquor base.

To subject to a legal obligation, such as a fine or court order

The quarrelsome hook-nosed husband of Judy in the comic puppet show Punch and Judy.

To impose (a legal obligation) on someone

To make (a hole or opening), as by using a punch or similar implement.

To strike or beat with the force and sound of a slap

To make a hole in (something), as by using a punch

Directly and with force

To pierce something; make a hole or opening

(countable) A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.

To hit with a sharp blow of the fist.

(countable) A sharp percussive sound like that produced by such a blow.

To drive (the fist) into or through something.

The percussive sound produced in slap bass playing.

To drive (a ball, for example) with the fist.

Makeup; cosmetics.

To make (a hole) by thrusting the fist.

An eye-catching sticker used in street art.

(Archaic) To poke or prod with a stick.

(transitive) To give a slap to.

Western US To herd (cattle).

(transitive) To cause something to strike soundly.

To depress (the accelerator of a car) forcefully.

(intransitive) To strike soundly against something.

To depress (a key or button, for example) in order to activate a device or perform an operation

To be excellent.

To enter (data) by keying

(transitive) To place, to put carelessly.

(Baseball) To hit (a ball) with a quick short swing.

To impose a penalty, etc. on (someone).

(countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.

To play slap bass on (an instrument).

A blow from something other than the fist.

Exactly, precisely

(uncountable) Power, strength, energy.

A blow, esp. one given with the open hand, or with something broad.

(uncountable) Impact.

To strike with the open hand, or with something broad.

(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.

With a sudden and violent blow; hence, quickly; instantly; directly.

(countable) A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.

A blow from a flat object (as an open hand)

(countable) A hole or opening created with a punch.

The act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand

(piledriving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.

Hit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand;

A prop, as for the roof of a mine.

Directly;

A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.

(entomology) Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genus Dodona of Asia.

(transitive) To strike with one's fist.

To herd.

(transitive) To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means.

(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

To thrust against; to poke.

Ellipsis of punch above one's weight, 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.

To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.

To mark a ticket.

A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; - specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc.

The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.

A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.

One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as, the Suffolk punch.

A thrust or blow.

A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.

An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.

A prop, as for the roof of a mine.

To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow.

To perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a blow; as, to punch a hole; to punch ticket.

(boxing) a blow with the fist;

An iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl

A tool for making (usually circular) holes

Deliver a quick blow to;

Drive forcibly as if by a punch;

Make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation;