Short punches
The crossword clue "Short punches" is answered by JABS, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
JABS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the JABS answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for JABS
Every other clue in this collection answered by JABS, most used first.
- Quick punches - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Pokes - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Boxing punches - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Pokes roughly - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Boxing moves - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Punches - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Quick blows. - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Quick boxing punches - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Ring exchange - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Ring tactics - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Short skirt - MINI, used 149 times
- Get ready, for short - PREP, used 123 times
- And others, for short - ETAL, used 111 times
- Short distance - STEP, used 100 times
- Shoulder muscle, for short - DELT, used 87 times
- Cut short - CROP, used 74 times
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