"stabs" is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English.
Example sentence: The pirate stabbed the crew's leader with his sword.
JMW Turner stabs and spits at his canvas.
Oliver stabs his fingers and talks a lot.
Still, it's stripped back and palate-cleansing, and has a hint of funk in the choppy rhythm stabs before the headbanging finale which lift it slightly above bland proficiency.
With a boom and a blast and a great ball of fire, they create a mushroom cloud of magic that boils, twists, stabs and flashes, and takes on the shape of "a misty bundle of fighting snakes" and then "an enormous cat fight that yowls across the roofs".
Two atonal synthesiser stabs, each from a different keyboard.
In frustration, Pépé takes out a pocket knife and stabs himself in the heart.
Some Kippers claim that, in its blundering first stabs at policymaking, the party is simply listening to its new members too well.
Before it started, analysts took stabs at guessing how high the bidding might go, with bullish estimates coming in at $22 billion.
If other countries legalise, as Uruguay already has, it could open up a global cannabis market worth perhaps $100 billion a year (by the best guesses, which are stabs in the dark).Who will corner that market?
So the mere suspicion that the planned merger between the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and the Deutsche Börse was cooked up by a coterie of giant American investment banks is enough to make Londoners mutter about stabs in the back.
He hoped to give them names, as well as establishing by the slashes of machetes, the stabs of bayonets or the clean entry hole of a bullet how they had died.
