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)

Animals

  • Punch (monkey), baby Japanese macaque

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
  • "The Punch" (Billions), a 2016 episode
  • "Punch" (Space Ghost Coast to Coast), a 1994 episode

Theatre

  • Punch (play), a 2024 British play

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

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