To make a hole or holes in with a punch or some similar instrument; pierce; perforate: as, to punch a metal plate.To make with or as with a punch: as, to punch a hole in something.n. A tool the working end of which is pointed, blunt, a continuous edge inclosing an area, or a pattern in relief or intaglio, and which acts either by pressure or percussion (applied in the direction of its longitudinal axis) to perforate or indent a solid material, or to drive out or in objects inserted in previously formed perforations or cavities.n. A tool used to force nail-heads below the surface.n. A stone-masons' chipping-tool; a puncheon.n. In surgery, an instrument used for extracting the stumps of teeth.n. In decorative art, a tool in the form of a bar, sometimes fitted with a handle and engraved at the end in a cross, concentric ring, or other device. It is used for impressing ornamental patterns upon clay or other plastic materials.n. The engraved model of a printing-type on the end of a steel rod: so called from its being punched in a copper bar which makes the matrix, or a reversed impression of the model.n. In carpentry, studding by which a roof is supported.n. In hydraulic engineering, a short length placed on the top of a pile to permit the monkey of a piledriver to bear upon it when it has been driven too low to be struck directly; a dolly.n. In coal-mining, same as pout.n. A punch operated by the rolling action of two levers on one fulcrum, forming a toggle.Same as punish.To give a blow, dig, or thrust to; beat with blows of the fist: as, to punch One on the head, or to punch one's head.n. A blow, dig, or thrust, us with the fist, elbow, or knee: as, to give one a punch in the ribs or a punch on the head.Short and fat.n. A short, fat fellow.n. A short-legged, barrel-bodied horse, of an English draft-breed.n. A short humpbacked hook-nosed puppet, with a squeaking voice, the chief character in a street puppet-show called “Punch and Judy,” who strangles his child, beats his wife (Judy) to death, belabors a policeman, and does other tragical and outrageous things in a comical way.n. A drink commonly made with wine or spirits, and either water or some substitute, as a decoction of tea, and flavored with lemon-juice or lemon-peel and sugar.