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punch the air en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To do an air punch; to direct one's fist upward in joy or celebration.
    • There’s plenty of that here, not to mention crying as you laugh and, on at least one occasion, defiantly punching the air as you laugh, when a payoff that has long been coming finally arrives. 2022 December 23, Jack Seale, “Motherland Christmas special review – you’ll laugh, gasp in shock ... then punch the air”, in The Guardian:

Forms

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punched the air Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
punched the air Tense=Past lexicographic
punching the air Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
punches the air Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

air punch