Noun

(en noun)

(gerund of punch) An incident in which someone is punched

* {{quote-news, 2009, January 25, Evonne Barry, Booze and the trail of violence, Herald Sun citation

, passage=Over the past four years, the rate of "interpersonal" attacks and "penetrating injuries" - such as stabbings, glassings, punchings , beatings - has doubled, he said. }}

process of making holes in something