pat
adjective
- apt; timely; opportune
- exactly suitable
- so glibly plausible as to seem contrived
- designating a poker hand to which no cards are drawn because of the unlikelihood of improving it
adverb
in a pat manner
Related Forms:
- patness noun
noun
- a quick, gentle tap, touch, or stroke with the hand or some flat object
- the sound made by this
- a small lump or mass, as of butter
- a mass of animal dung: cow pats covered the pasture
transitive verb patted, patting
- to tap, touch, or stroke quickly or gently, esp. with the hand, as in affection, sympathy, or encouragement
- to tap or stroke lightly with something flat
- to flatten, shape, apply, etc. by patting
intransitive verb
- to pat a surface
- to move along with a patting sound, as in running
- patent
- patented
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