Punch Explained

Punch commonly refers to:

• Punch (combat), a strike made using the hand closed into a fist
• Punch (drink), a wide assortment of drinks, non-alcoholic or alcoholic, generally containing fruit or fruit juice

Punch may also refer to:

Places

• Punch, U.S. Virgin Islands
• Poonch (disambiguation), often spelt as Punch, several places in India and Pakistan

People

• Punch (surname), a list of people with the name
• Punch (nickname), a list of people with the nickname
• Punch Masenamela (born 1986), South African footballer
• Punch (rapper), 21st century American rapper Terrence Louis Henderson Jr.
• Punch (singer), South Korean singer Bae Jin-young (born 1993)

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

• Mr. Punch (also known as Pulcinella or Pulcinello), the principal puppet character in the traditional Punch and Judy puppet show
• Mr. Punch, the masthead image and nominal editor of Punch, largely borrowed from the puppet show
• Mr. Punch, a fictional character in Neil Gaiman's graphic novel, The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch (1994)
• Punch, a DC Comics villain and partner of Jewelee's in Punch and Jewelee
• Punch/Counterpunch, a fictional character in The Transformers

Films

• Punch (1994 film), a boxing film starring Donald Sutherland
• Punch (2002 film), a Canadian film
• Punch (2011 film), a South Korean film
• Punch (2022 film), a New Zealand film starring Tim Roth
• Punch, a 1996 American short film starring Sacha Baron Cohen

Music

• Punch (band), an American punk band
• Punch Records, a UK music and arts development agency
• Punch (album), a 2008 album by Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile
• Punch, a 2013 album by indie-pop group Autoheart

Periodicals

• Punch (Danish magazine), an illustrated conservative Danish satirical magazine (1873–1894)
• Punch (magazine), a former British weekly magazine of humour and satire
• Adelaide Punch (1878–1884), a satirical magazine published in Adelaide, South Australia
• Japan Punch (1862–1887), a satirical magazine published in Yokohama, Japan
• Melbourne Punch (1855–1925), a satirical magazine published in Melbourne, Australia
• Sydney Punch (1864–1888), a satirical magazine published in Sydney, Australia
• The Punch (Australia), news website (2009–2013)
• The Punch, Nigerian daily newspaper

Television

• Punch (TV series), a 2014 South Korean television drama series
• Punch, a station identification for the television station BBC Choice, used in 1998
• Punch! (TV series), a Canadian animated comedy series
• Producciones PUNCH (often shortened to PUNCH), a Colombian programadora from 1956 to 2000
• "Punch (Space Ghost Coast to Coast)", an episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Other

• Punch!, a 2005 manga by Rie Takada
• Punch, a drinks website owned by Vox Media

Tools

• Punch (numismatics), an intermediate used in the process of manufacturing coins
• Punch (tool), a tool used to drive objects such as nails, to pierce workpieces, or to form an impression of the tip on a workpiece
• Punch (typography), a steel pattern used in casting metal type
• Hole punch, a common office tool used to create holes in sheets of paper
• Leather punch, a specialized tool for making holes in leather

Other uses

• Punch (cigar), the name of two brands of premium cigar
• Punch Taverns, a United Kingdom pub company
• Dodona (genus), a group of butterflies commonly known as the Punches, in particular:
  • Dodona eugenes, a Dodona commonly known as the Punch
• Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH), a NASA constellation of 4 microsatellites to study the Sun
• Tata Punch, an Indian SUV manufactured by Tata Motors since 2021

See also

• • • Punch Brothers, an American band
• Punches (album), a 2005 album by World Leader Pretend

• Punsch, a traditional Swedish and Finnish liquor
• Poonch (disambiguation)