It saves space and becomes convenient with practice, though short, stabby feel is quite unpleasant.

Tipping into overt horror is a mistake made just the once, in a stabby sequence of home invasion.

(Watch out for those stabby boutonnieres!)

The bad hunters and bad animals fear Bigfoot when Axe Cop gave him brass knuckles that are stabby.

The book is earthy ("you schizos are so stabby") and the language real and sometimes witty "sausage rolls and cheese and pineapple?

The Today host famously asked co-host Lisa Wilkinson if she was lucky enough to have something similarly "long and stabby" in the bedroom during a show last year.

Howard has stated that Disclosure is "trying to bring some soul into the songwriting... using jazz chords and interesting melodies instead of boring, stabby EDM triads."

Who could forget Karl Stefanovic losing it on air after a reference was made to a "long, stabby thing" that he kept by his bedside in the event of a home invasion?

You can do too much of this if you are not careful and as I tend to paint with sharp stabby strokes it can be a fault with me to look rather bitty.

That is, until the emotionless, qualmless, stabby "Halloween" serial killer Michael Myers plods calmly, Lurch-like, onto the scene (he always strolls, never runs), leaving body after bloody body behind, as per usual.

But to crawl the streets of the city playing offensive rap music on full volume with the windows wound down is the sort of carry-on you expect from teenage hoodlums, stabby little respec’-seekers and bug-eyed gang-rapists on crack.

This isn't stabby and bloody, but it's massively creepy, and tense as anything, because we all know what's coming, plus Paul - Jamie Dornan - is really brazen and like heaps of killers keeps all these souvenirs.

Mastodon's usual preoccupations are everywhere in evidence: intricate melodies, stabby guitars, interconnected, needlessly obtuse lyrics and shape-shifting vocals (especially those from guitarist/co-lead singer Brent Hinds, who increasingly sounds like Ozzy Osbourne with a cold).