The phrase "stab out" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when describing a physical action of jabbing or thrusting something, such as a knife, into something else. For example: - "He angrily stabbed out his cigarette with his fork." - "The killer stabbed out the victim's eyes in a fit of rage." - "She quickly stabbed out a message on her phone before the battery died."
You could – if you fancy spending Christmas in a place with a name that makes you want to stab out your own eyes with a cracker trinket.
They are more whimsical stocking-filler material than ideal gift for your feminist friend who wants to stab out her own eyeballs when she hears the word "feisty" being used as a marketing tool.
"He would stab out at different things, like Picasso, except that more of Picasso's things worked out," said David Levy, the director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and a longtime friend who played with Mr. Rivers in the East 13th Street Band.
Feel free to spoil the whole thing in comments because there wasn't much to spoil — except that I actually would have preferred to either see 27 Dresses instead or, barring that, stab out my eyes with a frozen carrot.
Leathers are distressed, collarbones stab out of asymmetric necklines.
Parts of her speech are stabbed out in a series of finger jabs.
In her driveway she turned her high beams on, the twin shafts of light stabbing out at the cattle milling around in the yard.
You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it's not right, and then you try again and again.
It's an assault that, like Lucy's, we are shown in agonising fashion – between The Returned and a much-publicised event on a certain US drama, I think I'm all stabbed out at the moment – though this time the camera focuses on Julie's helpless face as Serge the serial killer whispers, "it's over" – his now-familiar sign-off.
The mother has long suspected this Little Bo Peep is not all she seems and, when the blue light of the aquarium in her bedroom lights up pictures of burning mental institutions and women with their eyes stabbed out, it really sledgehammers the point home.
